Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.

The highest form of love is to be the protector of another person’s solitude.

Go into yourself and see how deep the place is from which your life flows.

Let everything happen to you Beauty and terror Just keep going No feeling is final

Perhaps somewhere, someplace deep inside your being, you have undergone important changes while you were sad.

Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.

Where something becomes extremely difficult and unbearable, there we also stand always already quite near its transformation.

This is what the things can teach us: to fall, patiently to trust our heaviness. Even a bird has to do that before he can fly.

And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been

But your solitude will be a support and a home for you, even in the midst of very unfamiliar circumstances, and from it you will find all your paths.

If we surrendered to earth's intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees.

Authenticity is not a metaphysically distinctive way of being human

Oh! Much may be done by defying The ghosts of Despair and Dismay And much may be gained by relying On "Where there's a Will There's a Way."

Once biographical information contaminates your consciousness, it's impossible to erase it and look at someone's work the same way again.

You can only coax someone into the vortex from in the vortex.

Goals keep you motivated and they give you a direction. That way you're not just aimlessly training and doing too much of one thing and not enough of another.

You might be a redneck if you have a color coordinating rope that ties down your car hood.

There's a real sense of fighting and destruction in our DNA that we don't get in touch with.

Simple determinism, whether of the genetic or environmental kind, is a depressing prospect for those with a fondness for free will.

Be brave, right through, and leave for the unknown.

It is not unscientific to make a guess, although many people who are not in science think it is.