Life was just unbelievably happy.
Lahtilaskmine kõlab kahtlemata väga hirmutavalt neile meie seast, kes elavad usus, et maakeral on käepide ja maakera pöörlemiseks peab just nimelt tema seda käepidet lakkamatult keerama, sest kui ta s...
Kalos Kai Agathos, the singular balance of the good and the beautiful.
It’s not fair for you to come here, I tell Depression. I paid you off already. I served mytime back in New York.But he just gives me that dark smile, settles into my favorite chair, puts his feet on m...
It has taken me years to learn this, but it does seem to be the case that if I am not actively creating something, then I am probably actively destroying something (myself, a relationship, or my own p...
It ain’t what they call you; it’s what you answer to.
Instead of trying to forcefully take thoughts out of your mind, give your mind something better to play with. Something healthier.Like what?Like love, Groceries. Like pure divine love.
Infatuation is not quite the same thing as love; it's more like love's shady second cousin who's always borrowing money and can't hold down a job.
In any case, our love is not a typical love, as is typically felt between men and women. We share something else between us - something more immediate, more cherishing. That has been evident to me fro...
In all of our lives, there are days that we wish we could see expunged from the record of our very existence.
I wrote every day throughout my twenties. For a while, I had a boyfriend who was a musician, and he practiced every day. He played scales; I wrote small fictional scenes. It was the same idea - to kee...
I watched them, thinking that little girls who make their mothers live grow up to be such powerful women.
I wanted to explore the art of pleasure in Italy, the art of devotion in India and, in Indonesia, the art of balancing the two.
I think perfectionism is just a high-end, haute couture version of fear.
I say this with all confidence, because I happen to believe we are all walking repositories of buried treasure. I believe this is one of the oldest and most generous tricks the universe plays on us hu...
I met an old lady once, almost one hundred years old, and she told me, There are only two questions that human beings have ever fought over, all through history: How much do you love me? and Who's in...
I lose count of how many bottles of Sardinian wine we drink before Deborah introduces to the table the suggestion that we follow a nice American custom here tonight by joining hands-and each in turn-s...
I just want God. I want God inside me. I want God to play in my bloodstream the way sunlight amuses itself on water.
I have searched frantically for contentment for so many years in so many ways, and all these acquisitions and accomplishments- they run you down in the end. Life, if you keep chasing it so hard, will...
I have always responded with breathless excitement to anyone who has ever said that God does not live in a dogmatic scripture or in a distant throne in the sky, but instead abides very close to us ind...