As a life's work, I would remember everything - everything, against loss. I would go through life like a plankton net.

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.

No one escapes the wilderness on the way to the promised land.

At a certain point, you say to the woods, to the sea, to the mountains, the world, Now I am ready. Now I will stop and be wholly attentive. You empty yourself and wait, listening.

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.

Experiencing the present purely is being empty and hollow; you catch grace as a man fills his cup under a waterfall.

According to Inuit culture in Greenland, a person possesses six or seven souls. The souls take the form of tiny people scattered throughout the body.

The answer must be, I think, that beauty and grace are performed whether or not we will or sense them. The least we can do is try to be there.

I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck.

The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.

If we listened to our intellect, we’d never have a love affair... or go into business. You’ve got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

How far away the stars seem, and how farIs our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart!

The greatest weight a bird gives up when preparing to fly is fear.

All life is preoccupied with death. Death is the only certain future. Yet in the face of reason, everyone holds out hope for the highly improbable.

A writer is simply one who writes words, Even if just 1 person reads it your work, or a 100, or 1million or 100, 000 You are a writer.

All things are ready, if our mind be so.

If knock the door once and it remains lock, do not turn away. With persistent knocks, the door will be open.

Death is a withdrawal of consciousness. It's like taking attention from here and putting it there.

In search of Truth the hopeful zealot goes,But all the sadder tums, the more he knows!

How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.

It is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.