These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
It isn't for the moment you are struck that you need courage, but for that long uphill climb back to sanity and faith and security.
It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.
We are always bargaining with our feelings so that we can live from day to day.
I must try to be alone for part of each year. . . and part of each day. . . in order to keep my core, my center. . . Women must be still as the axis of a wheel in the midst of her activities. She must be the pioneer of achieving this stillness, not only for her own salvation, but for the salvation of family life, of society, perhaps even of our civilization.
The web of marriage is made by propinquity, in the day to day living side by side, looking outward in the same direction. It is woven in space and in time of the substance of life itself.
the final lesson of learning to be independent - widowhood. . . is the hardest lesson of all.
Be very careful. Giving because we think we will get something back will not work. You must be 100 percent willing to give and never experience any return, or it will not work.
My safe, safe psychosis is broken. It was hard. It was made of stone. It covered my face like a mask. But it has cracked.
Teachers create and transform energy. They are the dynamos of educational change.
When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out.