It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.
I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.
Him that I love, I wish to be free -- even from me.
To give without any reward, or any notice, has a special quality of its own.
You can’t just write and write and put things in a drawer. They wither without the warm sun of someone else’s appreciation.
Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.
When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others. Only when one is connected to one's own core is.
When the heart is flooded with love there is no room in it for fear, for doubt, for hesitation.
Only when one is connected to one's own core is one connected to others, I am beginning to discover. And, for me, the core, the inner spring, can best be refound through solitude.
Ideally, both members of a couple in love free each other to new and different worlds.
Purposeful giving is not as apt to deplete one's resources; it belongs to that natural order of giving that seems to renew itself even in the act of depletion.
Woman must be the pioneer in this turning inward for strength. In a sense, she has always been the pioneer.
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