Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.

Expect nothing. Live frugallyOn surprise.become a strangerTo need of pityOr, if compassion be freelyGiven outTake only enoughStop short of urge to pleadThen purge away the need.Wish for nothing largerThan your own small heartOr greater than...

You think you can avoid [pain,] but you actually can’t. If you do, you just get sicker, or you feel more pain. But if you can speak it, if you can write it, if you...

I am an expression of the divine, just like a peach is, just like a fish is.

But it ain’t easy, trying to do without God even if you know he ain’t there, trying to do without him is a strain

I live a very secluded life, a very contemplative life and a very meditative one. That is my ideal life.

Some periods of our growth are so confusing that we don’t even recognize that growth is happening. We may feel hostile or angry or weepy and hysterical, or we may feel depressed. It would never...

All her young life she has tried to please her father, never quite realizing that, as a girl, she never could.

Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.

If you’re silent for a long time, people just arrive in your mind.

Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn’t matter. I’m not sure a bad person can write a good book. If art doesn’t make us better, then what on earth is it...

What the mind doesn’t understand, it worships or fears.

First time I got the full sight of Shug Avery long black body with it black plum nipples, look like her mouth, I thought I had turned into a man

Sofia the kind of woman no matter what she have in her hand she make it look like a weapon.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.

Peace”: the fruit of justice done especially to the Self.