The overplanners just take longer to be wrong and, when things inevitably go awry, are more crushed by the feeling that they have failed.

A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as for the body, Margaret Fuller

All right, then, her first rule for the rest of her days: no more looking outside for definitions. She might not have any clue who she was, but better to be lost and searching than shoved into a...

It was hard to leave. But it was impossible to stay. He was leaving from choice because he was young and energetic and adventurous and had long wanted to carve a life of his own. He was going to new...

Courage is a tool and a weapon. With just a little, you can build your life and use it to fend for yourself in the world.

Some wounds cut us so deep that they stop us. Stop us from letting go, from growing up, from seeing the truth.

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

If you push the fear away, the only version of fear available to you will be its crazy, irrational, or contorted version. If you're willing to feel it, and merge with it, its energy and wisdom will...

For me, reading was adventure, but most of all, reading was escape -

It is not all books that are as dull as their readers. There are probably words addressed to our condition exactly, which, if we could really hear and understand, would be more salutary than the...

Treat a child as though he is already the person he is capable of becoming. - Haim Ginott

Life's tough and even tougher when you're stupid

Don't think about why you question, simply don't stop questioning. Don't worry about what you can't answer, and don't try to explain what you can't know. Curiosity is its own reason. Aren't you in awe...

Stay humble; don't interfere; respect your creative genius

I live by the ancient adage that I truly understand today, Fear knocked on the door; love answered, and no one was there. As one of my greatest teachers, Ralph Waldo Emerson, once observed, 'They can...

Where there is hatred, let me sow love.

What I said to God through my gasping sobs was something like this: 'Hello, God. How are you? I'm Liz. It's nice to meet you.' That's right - I was speaking to the creator of the universe as though...

I couldn't care less about evidence and proof and assurances. I just want God. I want God inside me. I want God to play in my bloodstream the way sunlight amuses itself on water.

At least I'm giving someone an example not to follow.

The only time "early bloomer" has ever been applied to me is vis-à-vis my premature apprehension of the deep dread-of-existence thing. In all other cases, I plod and tromp along. My knuckles? Well,...

A magic realm of timelessness had been inserted into time, an intensity of newness and presentness, of the sort usually devoured by past and future. Suddenly, wonderfully, I found myself exempted from...

Working right trumps finding the right work. He didn't need to have a perfect job to find occupational happiness - he needed instead a better approach to the work already available to him.

He isn't stupid, but his interests are so narrow I doubt I could slip a sheet of paper in between them

I will at least have gained one ver

Received a gift - it was the first decent piece of instruction about marriage I had ever been given in my twenty-five years of life. Does your husband make you a better person? Edra asked. There I was...

Makes sense to me. Sometimes starting over is exactly what a person needs. And I think it's admirable. A lot of people don't have the courage it takes to do something like that.

On him at the time of his majority, and was more than enough for his needs. He would live his own life, then, far from Melbourne and parents, carve his own kind of niche. But the imminence

It's tough to live with people stuck in the past, isn't it?

We do learn and develop when we are exposed to those who are greater than we are. Perhaps this is the chief way we mature.

You've got to jump off cliffs - and build your wings on the way down. RAY BRADBURY