If you want to know, life is the principle of self-renewal, it is constantly renewing and remaking and changing and transfiguring itself.

I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them.

When a great moment knocks on the door of your life, it is often no louder than the beating of your heart, and it is very easy to miss it.

Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.

Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.

The writer is the Faust of modern society, the only surviving individualist in a mass age. To his orthodox contemporaries he seems a semi-madman.

To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.

Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.

They don't ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you despise.

In life it is more necessary to lose than to gain. A seed will only germinate if it dies.

And why is it, thought Lara, that my fate is to see everything and take it all so much to heart?

Once we merge with the CoreTrusting the efficiencyOf our Soul’s intentThe Flow becomesThe only possible direction

Stop crying to the ocean, stop crying over me. Stop worrying over nothing, stop worrying over me. So it's been so long since you said, well I know what I want and what I want's right here with you.

Faith is the result of the act of the will following upon a conviction that to believe is a duty.

For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.

I print giclees for artists and photographers for a livelihood. My original idea was to somehow combine the two.

Tragedy is chic but discontent is dowdy.

All fame is is having people you don't know coming up to you and saying, 'Hello.' I'm always polite and people are always nice, but it's weird.

Neglecting to broaden their view has kept some people doing one thing all their lives.

It's hard for me to put on weight.

When Martin Luther was asked what we contribute to our salvation, he said, "Sin and resistance"