You can't change the past, but you can ruin the present by worrying about the future.
The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea.
Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever.
God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road.
When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself.
I think all sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.
Here I am, where I am supposed to be.
To be a person is to have a story to tell.
Nobody has seen the trekking birds take their way towards such warmer spheres as do not exist, or rivers break their course through rocks and plains to run into an ocean which is not to be found. For God does not create a longing or a hope without having a fulfilling reality ready for them. But our longing is our pledge, and blessed are the homesick, for they shall come home.
If I know a song of Africa, of the giraffe and the African new moon lying on her back, of the plows in the fields and the sweaty faces of the coffee pickers, does Africa know a song of me? Will the air over the plain quiver with a color that I have had on, or the children invent a game in which my name is, or the full moon throw a shadow over the gravel of the drive that was like me, or will the eagles of the Ngong Hills look out for me?
What is it which is bought dearly, offered for nothing, and then most often refused?--Experience, old people's experience.
"Do you know a cure for me?" Why yes," he said, "I know a cure for everything. Salt water." Salt water?" I asked him. Yes," he said, "in one way or the other. Sweat, or tears, or the salt sea".
I have been trying for a long time to understand God. Now I have made friends with him. To love him truly you must love change, and you must love a joke, these being the true inclinations of his own heart.
You know you are truly alive when you’re living among lions.
Real art must always involve some witchcraft.
We must leave our mark on life while we have it in our power.
Coffee, according to the women of Denmark, is to the body what the Word of the Lord is to the soul.
And were my faith so strong that it could move mountains, that is the mountain that I would make come to me.
Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk; it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine.
I had seen a herd of Buffalo, one hundred and twenty-nine of them, come out of the morning mist under a copper sky, one by one, as if the dark and massive, iron-like animals with the mighty horizontally swung horns were not approaching, but were being created before my eyes and sent out as they were finished.
Be not afraid of absurdity; do not shrink from the fantastic. Within a dilemma, choose the most unheard-of, the most dangerous solution. Be brave, be brave.
Write a little every day, without hope, without despair.
There are many ways to the recognition of truth, and Burgundy is one of them.
One must in this lower world love many things to know finally what one loves the best.
I do not think that I could ever really love a woman who had not, at one time or another, been up on a broomstick.
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