The story of human intimacy is one of constantly allowing ourselves to see those we love most deeply in a new, more fractured light. Look hard. Risk that.
Women need to become literary "criminals," break the literary laws and reinvent their own, because the established laws prevent women from presenting the reality of their lives.
There's no way to know what makes one thing happen and not another. What leads to what. What destroys what. What causes what to flourish or die or take another course.
You have to say I am forgiven again and again until it becomes the story you believe about yourself.
You will learn a lot about yourself if you stretch in the direction of goodness, of bigness, of kindness, of forgiveness, of emotional bravery. Be a warrior for love.
You don't have to get a job that makes others feel comfortable about what they perceive as your success. You don't have to explain what your plan to do with your life. You don't have to justify your education by demonstrating its financial rewards. You don't have to maintain an impeccable credit score. Anyone who expects you to do any of those things has no sense of history of economics or science or the arts.
I would like to spend the rest of my days in a place so silent–and working at a pace so slow–that I would be able to hear myself living.
It is better to be young in your failures than old in your successes.
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.
Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.
Knighthood lies above eternity; it doesn’t live off fame, but rather deeds.
You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.
We must use what we have to invent what we desire.
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
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