Nature is subtle and complex.

...a butterfly is like the soul of a person, it dries out in captivity.

Everything is important. To the smallest insect, even the mouldering tree, the deepest stone in the drift.

Marriage is holy and it's private.

In a state of pseudo-death you restore your substance.

..we all have to do things in this life that we don't like..

First smile!! An unseasonal little shower of rain fell here, and a lot of butterflies drowned, so we put them in the sun and they came back to life, and flew up and then Agaat SMILED!

Well, I am something, Ma, you hissed, I am not nothing, I am somebody and I know what I want from life and I know what to do to get it. I will provide for myself.

Your thoughts, vividly imagined and repeated, charged with emotion, become your reality.

Let the past drift away with the water.

If everyone invested in the neighborhood they lived in, the United States would be a magical place.

Give me 26 lead soldiers and I will conquer the world.

It hurts the bald-head just as much as the thatched-head to have his hairs plucked.

Women can go on marrying and pretending that their boyfriends and husbands are Mr. Darcy or some RomCom dream man. But where's that going to get 'em? Besides divorce court?

Nobility should be elective, not hereditary.

Lack of comfort means we are on the threshold of new insights.

The supreme object of life is to live. Few people live. It is true life only to realize one's own perfection, to make one's every dream a reality.

Faith is the subject of the head. Devotion is the subject of the heart and meditation connects both.