Only love can be divided endlessly and still not diminish.
Don't wish me happiness - I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor - I will need them all.
I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.
I want first of all - in fact, as an end to these other desires - to be at peace with myself. I want a singleness of eye, a purity of intention, a central core to my life that will enable me to carry out these obligations and activities as well as I can. I want, in fact - to borrow from the language of the saints - to live 'in grace' as much of the time as possible. I am not using this term in a strictly theological sense. By grace I mean an inner harmony, essentially spiritual, which can be translated into outward harmony.
We have so little faith in the ebb and flow of life, of love, of relationships. We leap at the flow of time and resist in terror its ebb. We are afraid it will never return. We insist on permanency, on duration, on continuity; when the only continuity possible in life, as in love, is in growth, in fluidity - in freedom.
The most exhausting thing you can do is to be inauthentic.
It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.
It is only in solitude that I ever find my own core.
God may want you to be the answer to your own prayer.
What a commentary on our civilization, when being alone is considered suspect; when one has to apologize for it, make excuses, hide the fact that one practices it—like a secret vice!
I find there is a quality to being alone that is incredibly precious. Life rushes back into the void, richer, more vivid, fuller than before.
If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments.
I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living.
The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.
Travel Far, Pay No Fare... a book can take you anywhere.
A note of music gains significance from the silence on either side.
life itself is always pulling you away from the understanding of life.
I would like to achieve a state of inner spiritual grace from which I could function and give as I was meant to in the eye of God.
The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach - waiting for a gift from the sea.
The ball of rumor and criticism, once it starts rolling, is difficult to stop.
Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way.
One writes not to be read but to breathe...one writes to think, to pray, to analyze. One writes to clear one's mind, to dissipate one's fears, to face one's doubts, to look at one's mistakes--in order to retrieve them. One writes to capture and crystallize one's joy, but also to disperse one's gloom. Like prayer--you go to it in sorrow more than joy, for help, a road back to 'grace'.
Nothing feeds the center of being so much as creative work.
You can’t just write and write and put things in a drawer. They wither without the warm sun of someone else’s appreciation.
When the heart is flooded with love there is no room in it for fear, for doubt, for hesitation.
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