I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship.

Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.

Grief is the price we pay for love.

Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.

It’s better to look ahead and prepare, than to look back and regret.

At the end of the day, you are enough exactly as you are.

To fight unhappiness one must first expose it.

Most people rush after pleasure so fast that they rush right past it.

Everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are.

All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade.

We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.

All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster’s autobiography.