Famous Quotes

"We're constantly being told what other people think we are, and that's why it is so important to know yourself."

"Music, my rampart and my only one."

"In the final analysis it is between you and God, it was never between you and them anyway."

"Only children believe they're capable of everything."

"You’re not a human being until you value something more than the life of your body. And the greater the thing you live and die for the greater you are."

"Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear"

"I wanted to become the seeker, the aroused and passionate explorer, and it was better to go at it knowing nothing at all, always choosing the unmarked bottle, always choosing your own unproven method, armed with nothing but faith and a belief in astonishment."

"It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living."

"At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us."

"While we may judge things as good or bad, karma doesn't. It's a simple case of like gets like, the ultimate balancing act, nothing more, nothing less. And if you're deteremined to fix every situation you deem as bad, or difficult, or somehow unsavory, then you rob the person of their own chance to fix it, learn from it, or even grow from it. Some things, no matter how painful, happen for a reason. A reason you or I may not be able to grasp at first sight, not without knowing a person's entire life story—their cumulative past. And to just barge in and interfere, no matter how well-intentioned, would be akin to robbing them of their journey. Something that's better not done."

"Do you not then hear this horrible scream all around you that people usually call silence."

"Criticism - however valid or intellectually engaging - tends to get in the way of a writer who has anything personal to say. A tightrope walker may require practice, but if he starts a theory of equilibrium he will lose grace (and probably fall off)."

"When the world pushes you to your knees, you're in the perfect position to pray"

"Whoever you are, or whatever it is that you do, when you really want something, it's because that desire originated in the soul of the universe. It's your mission on earth."

"The ground's generosity takes in our compost and grows beauty! Try to be more like the ground."

"And...I think that's what life is all about, actually,about children and flowers."

"The first thing you have to know about writing is that it is something you must do everyday. There are two reasons for this rule: Getting the work done and connecting with your unconscious mind."

"I am buoyant and expansive and uncontainable--but I always was so, only I never knew it!"

"I have a dream.” “Is your dream very big?” “No.” “Well is it very grand?” “Not either.” “Neither?” “Neither.” “What is it then?” “It is very shiny."

"Hope springs forever."

"There is no illusion greater than fear."

"It is books that are a key to the wide world; if you can't do anything else, read all that you can."