Also I wanted to be able to love And we all know how that one goes, don't we? Slowly

it is a serious thing // just to be alive / on this fresh morning / in this broken world.

Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.

I don't ask for the sights in front of me to change, only the depth of my seeing.

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.

One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began.

Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable.

You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.

In this universe we are given two gifts: the ability to love and the ability to question. Which are, at the same time, the fires that warm us and the fires that scorch us.

You must not ever stop being whimsical. And you must not, ever, give anyone else the responsibility for your life.

We could all use the power of prayer now and then, but it seems to me that the people who are sure they have a direct line to heaven are most often calling collect with bad news.

The wealth of nations is men not silk and cotton and gold.

I still write music, and I still have sessions, and I still record, but I have no plans.

The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it.

You cannot disown what is yours. Flung out, there is always the return, the reckoning, the revenge, perhaps the reconciliation. There is always the return.

If you die you're completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on.

She hated people who thought too much. At that moment, she struck me as an appropriate representative for almost all mankind.

The future is not set in stone, and even if it was, stone can be broken.

Strategizing how to use it, how to promote it, how to use it as a campaign aid? I can't find any reference to [climate change].

I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.