I feel we are all islands-in a common sea. We are all, in the last analysis, alone. When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then o...
Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.
And so I miss the fertilization that might come from a contact. And for me--yes, I think I might as well admit it--fertilization does come a great deal from contacts. Why then do I avoid them--in a so...
Love does not consist in gazing at each other (one perfect sunrise gazing at another!) but in looking outward together in the same direction.
For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.
The punctuation of anniversaries is terrible, like the closing of doors, one after another between you and what you want to hold on to.
These values are signposts toward another way of living: simplicity of living, as much as possible, to retain a true awareness of life; balance of physical, intellectual, and spiritual life; work with...
There is, of course, always the personal satisfaction of writing down one's own experiences so they may be saved, caught and pinned under glass, hoarded against the winter of forgetfulness. Time has b...
Good communication is just as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
by and large,mothers and house wives are the only workers who do not have regular time off.They are the great vacationless class
The here, the now and the individual have always been the special concern of the saint, the artist, the poet and -- from time immemorial--the woman.
Purposeful giving is not as apt to deplete one’s resources; it belongs to that natural order of giving that seems to renew itself even in the act of depletion. The more one gives, the more one has the...
It is not the desert island nor the stony wilderness that cuts you from the people you love. It is the wilderness in the mind, the desert wastes in the heart through which one wanders lost and a stran...
Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.
When you love someone you do not love them all the time, in exactly the same way, from moment to moment. It is an impossibility. It is even a lie to pretend to. And yet this is exactly what most of us...
Duration is not a test of true or false.
It is only in solitude that I ever find my own core.
Those fields of daisies we landed on, and dusty fields and desert stretches. Memories of many skies and earths beneath us - many days, many nights of stars.
The shape of my life is, of course, determined by many things; my background and childhood, my mind and its education, my conscience and its pressures, my heart and its desires.
Purposeful giving is not as apt to deplete one's resources; it belonds to that natural order of giving that seems to renew iself even in the act of depletion. The more one gives, the more one has to g...