This is the first, wildest, and wisest thing I know, that the soul exists, and that it is built entirely out of attention.

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.

You must explore the timeless opportunities in life.

The more bombers, the less room for doves of peace.

I think the most interesting New Yorkers are the people who were not born here.

I promise all Cuban mothers that I will never will make them weep.

When the five of our voices come together, there is a special something there. That is something that I know.

Thanks. For everything. I mean it.’ A slow grin edged onto his face. ‘You’re worth it…Princess.’ Her tennis show hit the door a second after it closed.

Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be And so I put this on my life Nobody or nothing will ever come between us And I promise I'll give my life

The capacity to creatively improvise is an important factor that differentiates successful companies - or teams - from those that are not successful.

Few Christians go into media or the arts today, or see it as a primary mission field or battlefield. But it is.

The education of the will is the object of our existence.