Pain can make a whole winter bright, like fever, force us to live deep and hard.

We are all jellyfish, too pitiful and too afraid of being disliked to be honest.

Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.

Without darkness, nothing comes to birth, As without light, nothing flowers.

What is destructive is impatience, haste, expecting too much too fast.

We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.

The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind.

The most valuable thing we can do for the psyche, occasionally, is to let it rest, wander, live in the changing light of room, not try to be or do anything whatever.

There are some griefs so loud/They could bring down the sky/And there are griefs so still/None knows how deep they lie.

A house that does not have one warm, comfy chair in it is soulless.

It is, I assume, quite easy to wither into old age, and hard to grow into it.

Learn to bring peace into life to still the chaos. Accentuate the joy of your heart, experiencing a life of bliss.

Guilt and fear are a kind of rot. It spreads unless it's cleaned. And there's only one way to do that.

I didn't have time for tears anymore. I had questions.

Doctors frequently get it wrong. One out of five patients today is in the hospital because incorrect treatment by a physician put him or her there.

We haven't slept together. But we've napped

One who is in search of knowledge should give up the search of pleasure and the one who is in search of pleasure should give up the search of knowledge.

Sustaining a loving heart, even for a moment, makes one a spiritual being.

I have other tastes besides comedy. I love comedy. I adore it, but I love dramatic movies just as much.

...whom he had saved from a life of excessive freedom

I heard many discourses which were good for the soul, but I could not discover in the case of any one of the teachers that his life was worthy of his words.