Maira Kalman Quote

Do not avert your eyes.It is important that you see this.It is important that you feelthis.

A stranger may find beauty in you yet.

It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel.

Maybe we're just falling stars, we once danced in the same skyline looking down at the world. And we've fallen like all others, from near and far, we've gathered together, but separated by time and sp...

How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.

You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

To begin to know ourselves we must have sincere conversations with ourselves as if with a good friend. We must answer without reserve, listen without judgement, and accept without condition. That is s...

It's when I hear your heartbeat that I know that I am alive.

I'm getting asked a lot, 'You don't have kids, so how do you know how to act like a mother?' I know nothing could compare, and I haven't had that experience, but when my niece was born, I felt like I...

As much as I would like to know my path, a part of me is telling me that it is better not too know too many details about the end destination or the obstacles on the journey. If I can only see as much...