Invader and invaded held on to their fistfuls of earth, but in the end, the earth outlived the hands that held it.

She wanted to hold foreign syllables like mints on her tongue until they dissolved into fluency.

Inside us there is a word we cannot pronounce, and that is who we are.

But there had to be a quota. An upper limit to the number of miracles one is privileged to in a lifetime. How many times can a beloved reappear?

Perhaps our deepest love is already inscribed within us, so its object doesn't create a new word but instead allows us to read the one written.

We wear clothes, and speak, and create civilizations, and believe we are more than wolves. But inside us there is a word we cannot pronounce and that is who we are.

She wouldn't climb out of the bed for her sister, but she had climbed into a crater. She wouldn't cross a room, but she had crossed a continent.

For their entire lives, even before they met you, your mother and father held their love for you inside their hearts like an acorn holds an oak tree.

Life: a constellation of vital phenomena—organization, irritability, movement, growth, reproduction, adaptation.

Nothing, she now knew, could be defined in exclusion, and every bug, pencil, and grass blade was a dictionary in itself, requiring the definitions of all things to fulfill its own.

Happiness came in moments of unpredictable loveliness.

Wisdom is unwanted in the colony of fools.

Innovators "view failure not as a fatal character flaw but as a learning experience.

Energy is the belief in a separation and that which creates and keeps the illusion alive.

The service we render others is really the rent we pay for our room on Earth.

If I'd known how many problems I was going to run into before I finished, I can't remember a single project I would have started.

When confronted by conflict and confusion, another practice is to take a deep breath, pause and ask: 'Where is the gift in this?

Stop it. Do not feel safe with him. The Stockholm Syndrome is not your friend.

There are too many people around keeping me grounded to go off the rails. I'm my own person.

And this sensitivity will create new friendships for you - friendships with trees, with birds, with animals, with mountains, with rivers, with oceans, with stars. Life becomes richer as love grows.

What we learn through failure becomes a precious part of us, strengthening us in everything we do. So let the tough things make you tougher.