We need, in love, to practice only this: letting each other go. For holding on comes easily; we do not need to learn it.

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.

The love you share with yourself pays immediate and lifelong dividends of peace.

Real women fight for something, other than their own emotions.

The spirituality of the soul is awakening of spirit.

Before marriage keep your eyes wide open, after marriage keep them half closed.

There's my personal life, my sensitive side, and then me as a performer, sexy and energised and fun.

It's something that - jazz is one of the few things that you can go and listen to, I don't care where you're from, what you are, what background you come from - there's something there for you.

Once I thought that if I just had enough in the bank, if I had enough fame, that it would be all right. But I'm a human being like everyone else. I'm not exempt.

I build engines and attach wheels to them.

So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being. -Henri

The future and where we're going can be very terrifying, in some ways, but it's also really inspirational.