I saw that worrying had come to nothing and gave it up. And took my old body and went out into the morning, and sang.

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.

Significant change might require those who are now high in the hierarchy to move downward many steps. This seems to them undesirable and is resisted.

Vulnerability is what heals us.

violent storms. and beautiful smiles. both have electricity. both are equally destructive in nature.

The most fatal illusion is the settled point of view. Since life is growth and motion a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one.

When the youth of America gets together, amazing things happen.

You try to become the character that you're working with. So for me, I try to block out the cameras and try to trick my mind that this is actually happening.

And for those of you that dropped out of high school, remember the famous phrase: 'Do you want fries with that?'

When you love somebody, it's like in a couple - you want to create something. Sometimes, it's a baby.

We, the Desaparecidos, are perfectly prepared for people to hate what we're saying or not like what we're saying.

As we've said, it's not a coincidence that Fear Itself, Schism, and other big stories end at the same time. This is the first brick in the next road.