Mama told me to make a special point to remember the best times of my life. There are so many hard things to live through, and latching on to the good things will give you strength to endure, she...

If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.

Power, time, gravity, love. The forces that truly move the world are invisible.

Life, if you keep chasing it so hard, will drive you to death. Time—when pursued like a bandit—will behave like one; always remaining one country or one room ahead of you, changing its name and...

life can end in less time than it takes to draw one breath.

God waits only the separation of spirit from flesh to crown us with a full reward. Why, then, should we ever sink overwhelmed with distress, when life is so soon over, and death is so certain an...

All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.

The colour of the magpie, her father was saying, was symbolic of creation. The void, the mystery of that which had not yet taken form. Black and white, he said. Presence and absence.

Perhaps the whole life is merely a long preparation for the moment when we part with it.

I knew there were no such things as death cooties. Unfortunately, that's an intellectual fact. And death cooties are an emotional reality.

A very wise man once told me that you can't look back-you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future.

everything tried to get its living done in the brief hour of respite. It

I never could bear the idea of anyone's expecting something from me. It always made me want to do just the opposite.

During that time, The Mouth came by to pray with us, and my dad began to spend his evenings sitting in the yellow lawn chair and staring at the highway, or down in the basement with his isotope...

And what have you been up to? she asked.Oh, I don't know really, I said. Not much. Learning how to be a good loser.

I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss

Wouldn't take nothing for my journey now.

If you're going to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now... Things are almost never as bad as they first seem. Loosen up, girlfriend... you could giggle more...

So, let me get this right... the big whoop about being human is that you get to die?

If we had directions, it wouldn't be life. It would be an assignment. Grunt work.

If life were a movie, we'd have had what they call a "meet cute".

Seize what's been handed you. Make smart decisions. Make decisions because life is a temporary situation.

Just because life is hard, and always ends in a bad way, doesn't mean that all stories have to

Here's a nice image for a life in balance, she said. You're juggling these four balls that you've named work, family, friends, spirit. Now, work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it bounces back. The...

Im a girl who has been tamping down her emotions and keeping them tightly guarded her whole life. And that works really well for me... And now I felt like my shell had a dangerous crack in it. Without...

Being a good person, or a better person, or whatever it is you're worried about and trying to fix? It shouldn't change who you are. It means you become more like yourself.

I believe it's never too late to change. I'm eighty-one years old, but I still think I can be a better person tomorrow than I am today. And that's what I'll believe until I run out of tomorrows.

Life with God is an individual matter, and general formulas do not easily apply.

I have done so many things in my life," she said to the mirror. "Evil things, perhaps. But never unattentively, never wastefully...was I wrong?

Art like life is an open secret.