So here we are, in our rare and precious lives, surrounded by gorgeous moments begging to be noticed and celebrated. Go! Celebrate!

A succulent wild woman is one of any age who feels free to fully express herself in every dimension of her life.

Invent your world. Surround yourself with people, color, sounds, and work that nourish you.

You are sublimely, exactly, how you need to be at this moment.

The way to accomplish the assignment of truly living is to engage fully, richly, and deeply in the living of your dreams. We are made to dream and to live those dreams.

In the midst of our daily lives, we must find the juice to nourish our creative souls.

Cheer up every person you interact with (including yourself).

I absolutely trust that every animal and person has their own very necessary journey.

Be an electric eel in a goldfish pond!

There is room for us all to be how we actually are.

There is no control and perfection is arrogant. Practice messiness, letting go, and doing things badly.

A person who has lost his power of love has become blind to the beauties of life.

Patience is the path to opportunities. We gain patience through prayer and meditation. Within that vein, we never consider ourselves having failed.

Idyllic memories are merely a jeweled noose.

The Sage was asked to define good manners? to which he replied, To bear patiently the rude ones.

There is no such passion in human nature, as the passion for gravy among commercial gentlemen.

I do not believe there ever was a man who was his own master, but that every man has a master of some kind or other.

If you bring your sexual impulses to your creative work... you'll be working from deep in the genetic code, down where life wants to make new life and feel good in the process.

We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.

Every generation and every group brings the door into other things.

Tell me the tales that to me were so dear, Long, long ago, long, long ago.