Be a good steward of your gifts. Protect your time. Feed your inner life. Avoid too much noise. Read good books, have good sentences in your ears. Be by yourself as often as you can. Walk.
― Jane Kenyon
Live the questions now.
“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.”
— Rainer Maria Rilke
"Bravery is always more intelligent than fear, since it is built on the foundation of what one knows about oneself: the knowledge of one’s strength and capacity, of one’s passion."
— Nicole Krauss
“Faith is the ability to honor stillness at some moments, and at others to ride the passion and exuberance."
“Faith is the ability to honor stillness at some moments, and at others to ride the passion and exuberance."
— Alan Lightman
That's the moment you may be starting to get it right.
“The moment that you feel that, just possibly, you’re walking down the street naked, exposing too much of your heart and your mind and what exists on the inside, showing too much of yourself. That’s the moment you may be starting to get it right.”
– Neil Gaiman
If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
“If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.”
― Simone Weil
"Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got asecond."
Most people don't run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.
— William James
I want to taste and glory in each day
“I want to taste and glory in each day, and never be afraid to experience pain; and never shut myself up in a numb core of non-feeling, or stop questioning and criticizing life and take the easy way out. To learn and to think; to think and live; to live and learn: this always, with new insight, new understanding, and new love.”
— The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath