There is a creative spirit in you desiring to be free, and you may as well get out of its way for it will give you no peace until you do.

The imagination equips us to perceive reality when it is not fully materialized.

Love is not a doctrine, Peace is not an international agreement. Love and peace are beings who live as possibilities in us.

To have character is to be big enough to take life on.

All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life.

Poetry often enters through the window of irrelevance.

Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

For since most of our living is unconscious, play is like matchstrokes in the void, bringing into light the structures we behave by, illuminating for us, however briefly, our deep meanings.

It helps, I think, to consider ourselves on a very long journey: the main thing is to keep to the faith, to endure, to help each other when we stumble or tire, to weep and press on.

It is for each of us freely to choose whom we shall serve, and find in that obedience our freedom.

The big art is our life.

Death is never swift... No matter how those left behind would like to comfort themselves with the thought. -Before Ever After

The social self is simply any idea, or system of ideas, drawn from the communicative life, that the mind cherishes as its own.

Trade your secrets and become who you are.

Searchers after horror haunt strange, far places.

I think that taking ballet is one of the best things a girl can do. Period.

The golden gate to peace in life is the experience of bliss, and it is easy for everyone to acquire this great glory and live it throughout life.

Writer is a monkey, jumping from one tree to another in the jungle of words.

I made mistakes and I broke the law and I'm more than willing to pay a price for that. But there's a price beyond that that my children have paid, and that's not what was supposed to happen.

Whenever I watch someone doing something, even if it doesn't turn out so great, I at least admire their intentions and stuff.

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