In the end these things matter most: How well did you love? How fully did you live? How deeply did you let go?
When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
If people refuse to look at you in a new light and they can only see you for what you were, only see you for the mistakes you've made, if they don't realize that you are not your mistakes, then they have to go.
I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.
Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.
Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. It is all part of the fairy tale.
There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other, and knocking out a twelve-foot mountain troll is one of them.
What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.
Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.