Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
Opening up to the wrong person is like putting ammo in their hands.
I want to see beauty. In the ugly, in the sink, in the suffering, in the daily, in all the days before I die, the moments before I sleep.
She liked being reminded of butterflies. She remembered being six or seven and crying over the fates of the butterflies in her yard after learning that they lived for only a few days. Her mother had comforted her and told her not to be sad for the butterflies, that just because their lives were short didn't mean they were tragic. Watching them flying in the warm sun among the daisies in their garden, her mother had said to her, see, they have a beautiful life. Alice liked remembering that.
The Young Man came to the Old Man seeking counsel. I broke something, Old Man. How badly is it broken? It's in a million little pieces. I'm afraid I can't help you. Why? There's nothing you can do. Why? It can't be fixed. Why? It's broken beyond repair. It's in a million little pieces.
Life has but one true charm: the charm of the game. But what if weβre indifferent to whether we win or lose?
While there's life, there's hope.
Life is only precious because it ends, kid. Take it from a god. You mortals don't know how lucky you are
Having perfected our disguise, we spend our lives searching for someone we donβt fool.
Our most significant opportunities will be found in times of greatest difficulty.
Instead of focusing on how much you can accomplish, focus on how much you can absolutely love what youβre doing.
I wonder if I'll ever have to decide which is worse, life as we're living or no life at all.
Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.
Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.
You know, life fractures us all into little pieces. It harms us, but it's how we glue those fractures back together that make us stronger.
I used to wonder if it was God's plan that I should be alone for so much of my life. But I found peace. I found happiness within people and the world.
You don't put your life into your books, you find it there.
I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long.
Do nothing, and nothing happens. Life is about decisions. You either make them or they're made for you, but you can't avoid them.
Most of what matters in our lives takes place in our absence.
