The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting, not in hoping, even. Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what it was, nor forward to what it might be, but living in the present and accepting it as it is now.
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The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach - waiting for a gift from the sea.
One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if they are few.
I feel we are all islands - in a common sea.
Good communication is just as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.
What a circus act we women perform every day of our lives. Look at us. We run a tightrope daily, balancing a pile of books on the head. Baby-carriage, parasol, kitchen chair, still under control. Steady now! This is not the life of simplicity but the life of multiplicity that the wise men warn us of.
Don't wish me happiness - I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor - I will need them all.
The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.
Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way.
Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.
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.
Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like writing a poem or saying a prayer.
How hard it is to have the beautiful interdependence of marriage and yet be strong in oneself alone.
Travelers are always discoverers, especially those who travel by air. There are no signposts in the sky to show a man has passed that way before. There are no channels marked. The flier breaks each second into new uncharted seas.
If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments.
By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.
I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living.
The loneliness you get by the sea is personal and alive. It doesn't subdue you and make you feel abject. It's stimulating loneliness.
It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.
When the wedding march sounds the resolute approach, the clock no longer ticks, it tolls the hour. The figures in the aisle are no longer individuals, they symbolize the human race.
America, which has the most glorious present still existing in the world today, hardly stops to enjoy it, in her insatiable appetite for the future.
After all, I don't see why I am always asking for private, individual, selfish miracles when every year there are miracles like white dogwood.
For sleep, one needs endless depths of blackness to sink into; daylight is too shallow, it will not cover one.
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