We live only to discover beauty. All else is a form of waiting

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.

One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.

How beautiful to find a heart that loves you, without asking you for anything, but to be okay.

And God said, Love your enemy, & I obeyed Him & loved myself.

If indeed you must be candid, be candid beautifully.

Between what is said and not meant, and what is meant and not said, most of love is lost.

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.

And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

Keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life.

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.

A life dedicated to serving others is the life we should all aspire to live.

You want more light in your house? Enlarge your windows! You want more truth in your life? Doubt everything!

Foundations to be reliable must always be unshakable.

You can escape into a character.

what exactly is postmodernism, except modernism without the anxiety?

I'm always making Butcher Holler sound like the most backward part of the United States-and I think maybe it is.

Command any idea to clothe itself in form.

I love you, I love you, I love you! And if you ever die on me again, I'll kill you so dead! (Tabitha)

Saul Bellow has that character in Henderson the Rain King say: "I want, I want, I want!"9 I remember reading this passage years ago and thinking, yes, that's the human.

There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness.