I made a decision a long time ago that if I want creativity in my life and I do then I will have to make space for fear, too.
You were given life; it is your duty and also your entitlement as a human being to find something beautiful within life, no matter how slight.
True wisdom gives the only possible answer at any given moment, and that night, going back to bed was the only possible answer.
I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises.
Venice is beautiful, but like a Bergman movie is beautiful; you can admire it, but you don't really want to live in it.
If I am truly to become an autonomous woman, then I must take over that role of being my own guardian...I not only have to become my own husband, but I need to be my own father, too.
You are, after all, what you think. Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.
Desiring another person is perhaps the most risky endeavor of all. As soon as you want somebody—really want him—it is as though you have taken a surgical needle and sutured your happiness to the skin of that person, so that any separation will now cause a
I met an old lady once, almost a hundred years old, and she told me, 'There are only two questions that human beings have ever fought over, all through history. How much do you love me? And Who's in charge?
The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than staying was leaving.
In desperate love, we always invent the characters of our partners, demanding they be what we need of them, and then feeling devastated when they refuse to perform the role we created in the first place.
Someday you're gonna look back on this moment of your life as such a sweet time of grieving. You'll see that you were in mourning and your heart was broken, but your life was changing...
To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.
People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that's what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life.
We must get our hearts broken sometimes. This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.
You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. This is a power you can cultivate. If you want to control things in your life so bad, work on the mind. That's the only thing you should be trying to contro
You can measure the happiness of a marriage by the number of scars that each partner carries on their tongues, earned from years of biting back angry words.
