How you spend your days is how you spend your life.

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.

No one escapes the wilderness on the way to the promised land.

At a certain point, you say to the woods, to the sea, to the mountains, the world, Now I am ready. Now I will stop and be wholly attentive. You empty yourself and wait, listening.

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.

As a life's work, I would remember everything - everything, against loss. I would go through life like a plankton net.

Experiencing the present purely is being empty and hollow; you catch grace as a man fills his cup under a waterfall.

According to Inuit culture in Greenland, a person possesses six or seven souls. The souls take the form of tiny people scattered throughout the body.

The answer must be, I think, that beauty and grace are performed whether or not we will or sense them. The least we can do is try to be there.

I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck.

The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.

Am I going with time slowly or is time going with me?

He was a generous but subtly demanding boss.

Not everyone wants you all the time, Jace," he said. "Don't be ridiculous.

Wish you would learn to love people and use things and not the other way around

There is a rollicking kindness that looks like malice.

Have you eaten?' I asked Diesel. When?' Recently.' No.

Donald Trump says that he will not run for president. You know why? He can't find his birth certificate.

She was loved deeply, but not widely

Her daddy drank all day and mommy did drugs, never wanted to play or give kisses and hugs. She'd watch the TV and sit there on the couch, while her mom fell asleep and her daddy went out.

Time past and time future allow but a little consciousness. To be conscious is not to be in time.