I have patience for centuries in me and will live as though my time were very big.

The highest form of love is to be the protector of another person’s solitude.

Go into yourself and see how deep the place is from which your life flows.

Let everything happen to you Beauty and terror Just keep going No feeling is final

Perhaps somewhere, someplace deep inside your being, you have undergone important changes while you were sad.

Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.

Where something becomes extremely difficult and unbearable, there we also stand always already quite near its transformation.

This is what the things can teach us: to fall, patiently to trust our heaviness. Even a bird has to do that before he can fly.

And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been

But your solitude will be a support and a home for you, even in the midst of very unfamiliar circumstances, and from it you will find all your paths.

If we surrendered to earth's intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees.

So she became a woman who held her head high, not in arrogance, or contempt, but because she knew that it was a form of cowardice to make a choice and then pretend you didn’t really make it

I hate in-the-end kindnesses: they're about as nourishing as the third day of cold mutton.

I only accept your mistakes and flaws to the degree that I accept my own.

A great part of being human is the relentless quest for better.

A liberally educated person meets new ideas with curiosity and fascination. An illiberally educated person meets new ideas with fear.

I don't dress any particular way to impress anyone or market myself for my music. It's actually who I am.

Above all, I wanted to be appreciated as a prima ballerina who happened to be a Native American, never as someone who was an American Indian ballerina.

Everybody always thinks the grass is always greener.

Man is the only animal to borrow tools.