Everyone once, once only. Just once and no more. And we also once. Never again. But this having been once, although only once, to have been of the earth, seems irrevocable.

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.

Shame, as an emotion, has a core meaning, in relating individuals to wider social groups and norms -- real or imagined.

now i can get them teeth

I can't even explain to you how terrible that feels, that I equate dating a woman with punishment, shame, guilt, disappointment, reproach, reprimand, persecution. It's a nightmare.

I have the consolation of leaving your kingdom in the highest degree of glory and of reputation.

He who believes needs no explanation.

It’s mentally exhausting, feeling bad about something you can do nothing about.

Placing the state in charge of moral principles is equivalent to putting the proverbial fox in charge of the chicken coop.

if you cannot get what you want, common sense suggests that you should put your mind to wanting what you can get.

You can become a great creator or a little one as the intensity of your desire is little or great.

The hand that rocks the cradle should also rock the boat.