Nobody has ever had to go off following one of my tackles and nobody has broken their leg.
. . . the labor with which we give birth is simply a rehearsal for something we mothers must do over and over: turn ourselves inside out, and then let go.
Confidence is the willingness to be as ridiculous, luminous, intelligent, and kind as you really are, without embarrassment.
You have a soft spot. Contrary to popular belief, it is not where you are weak, it is the gateway to indestructible power.
Fearlessness requires attention and receptivity-it takes focus to stand in the still eye of a tornado and not be swept away by it.
A Dark Night is a mental and emotional state of despair that arises when something is so painful that it blots out all other considerations and makes carrying on as usual out of the question.
When the Bible speaks of God's love for us and the kind of love we are to have for him and for other people, the word is always apage, signifying a commitment to act.
I should like to be a full-time Mother and a full-time Artist and a full-time Wife-Companion and also a 'Charming Woman' on the side! And to be aware and record it all. I cannot do it all. Something must go - several things probably. The 'charming woman' first!
In America, we have a media that lives in its own universe.
So long as men die, life will reassert its tragic interest from time to time with fresh energy, and to this interest Christianity alone can respond. If the scientific people could rid us of death, they might indeed hope to win over the heart and conscience of the world, permanently, to some form of non-theistic speculation. As it is, the tide ebbs, as I believe, only that it may flow again.