I am master of my spoken words and slave to those which remain unspoken.

People can hate you or curse you, but if you love, then nothing can touch you.

According to Hannah, real life just happens, whereas stories make sense. When you put real life in print, she says, you show it up for the pointless mess it really is.

The purpose of writing is both to keep up with life and to run ahead of it. I am little comfort to myself, although I am the only comfort I have, excepting perhaps streets, clouds,...

Sadness gives depth. Happiness gives height. Sadness gives roots. Happiness gives branches. Happiness is like a tree going into the sky, and sadness is like the roots going down into the womb of the earth....

Jazz is the music of the body. The breath comes through brass. It is the body’s breath, and the strings’ wails and moans are echoes of the body’s music. It is the body’s vibrations which...

I dance with hopes and sing along with possibilities.

Get Off The Scale! You are beautiful. Your beauty, just like your capacity for life, happiness, and success, is immeasurable.

I certainly supported a woman’s right to choose, but to my mind the time to choose was before, not after the fact.

This universe was created for the love, by the love, and with love.

Runnin’s not a bad thing, sir, so long as you’re runnin’ towards somethin’ good.

Live with GRACE & Die with PRIDE.

Either you let your life slip away by not doing the things you want to do, or you get up and do them.

If we choose to behave differently, we are considered ‘Mad’ or ‘immature

It is not what he has, nor even what he does, which directly expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.

Sometimes I wake up with such an immense sense of disappointment that I can hardly breathe.

The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.

When you see things through your heart, there is no right or wrong, true or false, only there is love to share.

Today’s politicians are like policemen on traffic duty. They are just dealing with traffic right in front of them. Yet they want to be the Superintendent based on that alone. The politicians and the bigwigs...

When we water our garden with kindness, caring, compassion and Love, we will be amazed at what blooms in our lives.

The things that inspire your life should consume your life.

I consider myself a stained-glass window. And this is how I live my life. Closing no doors and covering no windows; I am the multi-colored glass with light filtering through me, in many different shades....

Oh I could be out, rollicking in the ripeness of my flesh and others’, could be drinking things and eating things and rubbing mine against theirs, speculating about this person or that, waving, indicating hello...

What is lived is what is valued.

I hoped at first to find a rather more direct comprehension of life in one or two novelists and poets; but if they really had such a comprehension, it must be confessed they did not...

The distance between you and everyone is love.

I have been your draft for my whole life, let me in or discard me forever.

We each carry with us unique gifts, recognized and unrecognized. We long to harness those gifts in a way that gives life significance and helps us to matter more in the lives of others.

If you surround yourself with people that fill in your inadequacies then together you fulfill the world.

Life goes on and on after one’s luck has run out. Youthfulness persists, alas, long after one has ceased to be young.

In my sleep I have my nightmares, awake I have my thoughts, I am not sure which is worse.

There are no lungs like the ones that breathe poetry.

Anyone who says “Trust me” is the last motherfucker you should ever trust.

.keep the child inside you alive..

I could probably write a book on the complexities of our relationship, on my constantly shifting emotions, my ever-changing mind, but let’s just say that nothing is ever as black and white as it seems,...

We are what we are because of what we’ve been

There’s one other thing I’d like to remind you of, my dear. There’ve been many times when you’ve sworn to me that after all that life has dealt you, it was no longer possible for...

You made a choice—a single choice. How neat to think you may have opened the door to a wondrous future without knowing.

Destiny. To believe that a life is meant for a single purpose, one must also believe in a common fate. Father to daughter, brother to sister, mother to child. Blood ties can be as unyielding...

Sometimes, falling back on or using an old method or habit, is like sliding into a pair of worn running shoes and a corset. Doesn’t make sense to others, but it’s not for them. It’s...

I wrote home to say how lovely everything was, and I used flourishing words and phrases, as if I were living life in a greeting card – the kind that has a satin ribbon on...

You are where you are right now because of the actions you’ve taken, or maybe, the inaction you’ve taken.

My mother says it can’t stay like this, but I believe it will. The Pants are like an omen. They stand for the promise we made to one another, that no matter what happens, we...

The greatest discovery is to find a hero within oneself that will choose life over death; and fight for hope through despair to possess the will to live.

[T]he normal and the everyday are often amazingly unstoppable, and what is unimaginable is the cessation of them. The world is resilient, and, no matter what interruptions occur, people so badly want to return to...

Synchronicity, it is like a collaboration with fate. All of that becomes the norm when the EGO (edge God out) is no longer the driving force in your life.

Someday i’m gonna say i used to be myself.

Molecules dissolve and pass away, but consciousness survives the death of the matter on which it rides.

touch” in so many odd ways! And so I am made up of all these scents, all these feelings! An illumination of nerve endings!

Say you are at the brink of killing yourself and someone tries to talk you out of it. You’ve already thought about it and your life is not worth living. Someone else comes along and...