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

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

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.

We need, in love, to practice only this: letting each other go. For holding on comes easily; we do not need to learn it.

Suspect each moment, for it is a thief, tiptoeing away with more than it brings.

The books I read when I was twenty completely changed when I read them when I was sixty.

I don't believe everything "is meant to be." I believe God wants to direct our steps, but our free will makes for a lot of detours.

The innovation classification is not just based on the required investments, or on the potential market, but on its evolution abilities.

Do you remember those days? Back porch, sunshine, mason jars" - she paused at remembered sweetness - "we were so foolish then...thinking there was a big ol' world out there to conquer.

I'm not wild about hand-held shots.

Playing a flute is like writing a book. You're telling what's in your heart...It's easier to play if it's right from your heart. You get the tone, and the fingers will follow.

We need to build downtime into our lives, so that we can have solitude without feeling overcome with guilt.

I knew what I didn't want to do- that's always my starting point. The starting point is always that I don't want to repeat myself. Or I try my best not to, with varying degrees of success.

When life gives you lemons... choke on them and die... you stupid lemon eater.