To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting.
To live is to be musical, starting with the blood dancing in your veins. Everything living has a rhythm. Do you feel your music?
When all life is seen as divine, everyone grows wings.
Life's a journey, not a destination.
In their innocence, very young children know themselves to be light and love. If we will allow them, they can teach us to see ourselves the same way.
Do not erase the designs the child makes in the soft wax of his inner life.
I used to live in a room full of mirrors; all I could see was me. I take my spirit and I crash my mirrors, now the whole world is here for me to see.
I'd trade all my tomorrows for a single yesterday.
The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.
You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.
I want to feel my life while I'm in it.
The reality of the building does not consist in the roof and walls, but in the space within to be lived in.
A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.
To be interested in the changing seasons is . . . a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
All my life I used to wonder what I would become when I grew up. Then, about seven years ago, I realized that I was never going to grow up - that growing is an ever ongoing process.
Life will not break your heart. It'll crush it.
The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.
In the survival of favoured individuals and races, during the constantly-recurring struggle for existence, we see a powerful and ever-acting form of selection.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding... And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy
Sometimes you have to be apart from people you love, but that doesn't make you love them any less. Sometimes you love them more.
Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety (out of fear and need for defense) and risk (for the sake of progress and growth). Make the growth choice a dozen times a day.
