To be careful with people and with words was a rare and beautiful thing.

If you wake up and the day feels broken, just lean into the crack.

You live out the confusions until they become clear.

A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.

There is nothing stronger than a broken woman who has rebuilt herself.

The first time you do something only happens once.

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

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

To have courage for whatever comes in life — everything lies in that.

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

What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it.