The gnarled fidelity of an old habit.

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.

Maturity is the ability to see what is important and what is not.

I hope in God, I pray on, and look yet for the answer. They are not converted yet, but they will be.

If you look at romantic comedies as pieces of commerce, the audience is looking for wish fulfillment.

Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream.

Infinity? It attracts us like a floodlight in the night.

Atheists are not Americans.

The worst thing a man can ever do is kiss me on the first date.

You don't need to hide the fact that you're in recovery, but you don't have to share your history of addiction with acquaintances at work, either.

The world is split between those who do not sleep because they are hungry and those who do not sleep because they are afraid of those who are hungry.

So I be written in the Book of Love. I do not care about that Book Above. Erase my name, or write it as you will. So I be written in the Book of Love.