I climb, I backtrack. I float. I ramble my way home.

it is a serious thing // just to be alive / on this fresh morning / in this broken world.

Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.

I don't ask for the sights in front of me to change, only the depth of my seeing.

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.

One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began.

Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable.

You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.

In this universe we are given two gifts: the ability to love and the ability to question. Which are, at the same time, the fires that warm us and the fires that scorch us.

You must not ever stop being whimsical. And you must not, ever, give anyone else the responsibility for your life.

You are what you eat. What would YOU like to be?

Every library is a palace

Only learning oneself better, and understanding one’s place in the world, made the touch of another mundane.

It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.

If we can cultivate a concern for others, keeping in mind the oneness of humanity, we can build a more compassionate world.

Friends, I was pretty sure, lift their friends up; they don't weigh them down like a sack full of stones

I mostly like to travel and volunteer because I get antsy if I stay in my comfort zone for too long.

What have you done? What have you given up?' So many things, Cecily. More than you know.

Intimidation is 99 percent in the intimidatee's head.

I wouldn't want the pressure of a Six Feet Under or the pressure of improvising like Curb Your Enthusiasm.