Ah, what happiness it is to be with people who are all happy, to press hands, press cheeks, smile into eyes.
I can never be perfectly certain whether Helen was got with child by Leonard Bast or by his fatal forgotten umbrella. All things considered, I think it must have been the umbrella.
Sleeping was her latest discovery. 'It's so wonderful. One simply shuts one's eyes, that's all. It's so delicious.
Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change.
I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.
We can do whatever we wish to do provided our wish is strong enough. But the tremendous effort needed- one doesn't always want to make it-does one? ... But what else can be done? What's the alternativ...
It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.
Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change. So suffering must become Love. That is the mystery.
Regret is an appalling waste of energy you can't build on it it is good only for wallowing.
Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different.
Make it a rule of life never to regret and never look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy you can't build on it it's good only for wallowing in.
Risk! Risk anything! ... Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.
Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different. Life would undergo a change of appearance because we ourselves had undergone a change...
A big bee, a golden furry fellow, crept into a freesia, and the delicate flower leaned over, swung, shook; and when the bee flew away it fluttered still as though it were laughing. Happy, careless flo...
It's a terrible thing to be alone - yes it is - it is - but don't lower your mask until you have another mask prepared beneath - as terrible as you like - but a mask.
I saw myself driving through Eternity in a timeless taxi.
To acknowledge the presence of fear is to give birth to failure.
I am treating you as my friend, asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future plusses.
We can do whatever we wish to do provided our wish is strong enough. ... What do you want most to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself in the face of difficulties.
When we can begin to take our failures non-seriously it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.