... Let us risk the wildest places, Lest we go down in comfort, and despair.

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.

There is a difference between being mad and being surrounded by retards.

The sensible part of me wanted to dissect my emotions, overthinking and overcomplicating my reaction to Jev.

The cadence of suffering has begun. Every evening at dusk, my heart constricts until night has come.

Work has enhanced and certainly supported my feelings toward myself, because it's been a reflection of goals I've set. But if you're not happy with yourself on the inside, then what does it matter?

I think men have always been afraid of women's sexuality, and the restrictions they put on women testify to that.

If you would get a contented life, do not grasp too much of the world, do not take in more of the business of the world than God calls you to.

I just thought, there are very few stories involving me, Anna Nicole Smith, and Jesus.

I coach a few guys and they work very, very hard, but in our day we did it because we just loved it.

The secret of life does not lie in its chemical basis . . . Life succeeds precisely because it evades chemical imperatives.

My parents have always been very respectful of me so I’ve always been really respectful of them. My worst fear is to let them down so that’s why I don’t misbehave.