Beauty is only the start of bearable terror.

The highest form of love is to be the protector of another person’s solitude.

Go into yourself and see how deep the place is from which your life flows.

Let everything happen to you Beauty and terror Just keep going No feeling is final

Perhaps somewhere, someplace deep inside your being, you have undergone important changes while you were sad.

Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.

Where something becomes extremely difficult and unbearable, there we also stand always already quite near its transformation.

This is what the things can teach us: to fall, patiently to trust our heaviness. Even a bird has to do that before he can fly.

And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been

But your solitude will be a support and a home for you, even in the midst of very unfamiliar circumstances, and from it you will find all your paths.

If we surrendered to earth's intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees.

The hardest part of changing things is knowing how much needs changing,

When things are bad, be thankful...they are not as bad as they could be.

Conversation enriches the understanding but solitude is the school of genius.

The original deal we made was that Walker would be treated like a regular movie, rather than an arthouse thing.

Empathy makes you more aware of other people's suffering, but it's not clear it actually motivates you to take moral action or prevents you from taking immoral action.

May the Lord level in the dust those who would deprive the people of their liberty.

And if you are somebody who needs to get a pat on the back for everything that you do, editorial is not for you.

As a believer is changed, receiving a glorified body, so similarly, the earth is changed into a new earth, unstained by sin.

Being natural is simply a pose, and the most irritating pose I know.

Sentimentality is a failure of feeling.