We live half our waking lives and all of our sleeping lives in some private, useless, and insensible waters we never mention or recall.

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.

No one escapes the wilderness on the way to the promised land.

At a certain point, you say to the woods, to the sea, to the mountains, the world, Now I am ready. Now I will stop and be wholly attentive. You empty yourself and wait, listening.

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.

As a life's work, I would remember everything - everything, against loss. I would go through life like a plankton net.

Experiencing the present purely is being empty and hollow; you catch grace as a man fills his cup under a waterfall.

According to Inuit culture in Greenland, a person possesses six or seven souls. The souls take the form of tiny people scattered throughout the body.

The answer must be, I think, that beauty and grace are performed whether or not we will or sense them. The least we can do is try to be there.

I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck.

The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.

We all didn't come into to the world at the same time so it makes sense that we don't leave it at the same time.

The power of the writer is to capture the thoughts live and present them as they appeared in his mind

We are imperfect humans and are bound to need attitude adjustments from time to time.

Money was the crux. Raising money to pay the cost of war was to cause more damage to 14th century society than the physical destruction of war itself.

... enforced Christianity was the surest breeding ground for unbelief. Many men either became unbelievers or met unbelievers during their military service.

If you like your brother and he's prospering, you'll be pleased for him.

Poets are never allowed to be mediocre by the gods, by men or by publishers.

I dont wish for anything. Wishing for a million dollars feels greedy. I just wish for the best for me.

Tis curious that we only believe as deeply as we live.

Franchises and chains have come to dominate small communities, but those same chains have eliminated a lot of the greasy spoons, places you didn't want to eat in the first place.