One learns first of all in beach living the art of shedding; how little one can get along with, not how much.
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 final lesson of learning to be independent - widowhood ... is the hardest lesson of all.
One must lose one's life to find it.
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 one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others. Only when one is connected to one's own core is.
Is there anything as horrible as starting on a trip? Once you're off, that's all right, but the last moments are earthquake and convulsion, and the feeling that you are a snail being pulled off your rock.
The ball of rumor and criticism, once it starts rolling, is difficult to stop.
It is a difficult lesson to learn today-to leave one's friends and family and deliberately practice the art of solitude for an hour or a day or a week. And yet, once it is done, 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.
The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere. That is why so much of social life is exhausting; one is wearing a mask. I have shed my mask.
Women need solitude in order to find again the true essence of themselves.
One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if they are few.
Forsythia is pure joy. There is not an ounce, not a glimmer of sadness or even knowledge in forsythia. Pure, undiluted, untouched joy.
Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like writing a poem or saying a prayer.
By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.
My Life cannot implement in action the demands of all the people to whom my heart responds.
there is no aristocracy of grief. Grief is a great leveler.
One can never pay in gratitude; one can only pay 'in kind' somewhere else in life.
Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.
I feel we are all islands - in a common sea.
Marriage should, I think, always be a little bit hard and new and strange. It should be breaking your shell and going into another world, and a bigger one.
Yesterday's fairy tale is today's fact. The magician is only one step ahead of his audience.
Good communication is just as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
We tend not to choose the unknown, which might be a shock or a disappointment or simply a little difficult to cope with. An yet it is the unknown with all its disappointments and surprises that is the most enriching.
The nice thing about really intelligent people is that when you talk with them they make you feel intelligent too.
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