The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere.
Don't wish me happiness I don't expect to be happy all the time... It's gotton beyond that somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor. I will need them all.
Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to sleep after.
It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeded.
The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere. That is why so much of social life is exhausting; one is wearing a mask. I have shed my mask.
Him that I love, I wish to be free -- even from me.
Women need solitude in order to find again the true essence of themselves.
Only love can be divided endlessly and still not diminish.
I find there is a quality to being alone that is incredibly precious. Life rushes back into the void, richer, more vivid, fuller than before.
Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.
The shape of my life is, of course, determined by many things; my background and childhood, my mind and its education, my conscience and its pressures, my heart and its desires.
I would like to achieve a state of inner spiritual grace from which I could function and give as I was meant to in the eye of God.
It isn't for the moment you are struck that you need courage, but for that long uphill climb back to sanity and faith and security.
One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach.
One can never pay in gratitude: one can only pay 'in kind' somewhere else in life.
I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being concious of living.
The beach is not a place to work; to read, write or to think.
Woman must come of age by herself... She must find her true center alone.
My Life cannot implement in action the demands of all the people to whom my heart responds.
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.
One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can only collect a few. One moon shell is more impressive than three. There is only one moon in the sky.
No man is an island,' said John Donne. I feel we are all islands -- in a common sea.
When I cannot write a poem, I bake biscuits and feel just as pleased.
If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments.
By and large,mothers and house wives are the only workers who do not have regular time off.They are the great vacationless class
What a commentary on our civilization, when being alone is considered suspect; when one has to apologize for it, make excuses, hide the fact that one practices it—like a secret vice!
Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone, his own burden, his own way.
Yesterday's fairy tale is today's fact. The magician is only one step ahead of his audience.
Not knowing how to feed the spirit, we try to muffle its demands in distraction...What matters is that one be for a time inwardly attentive.
Perhaps this is the most important thing for me to take back from beach-living: simply the memory that each cycle of the tide is valid; each cycle of the wave is valid; each cycle of a relationship is valid.
