We travel, some of us forever, to seek other places, other lives, other souls.

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.

People living deeply have no fear of death.

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.

We write to taste life twice: in the moment and in retrospection.

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.

Each friend represents a world in us, w world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.

We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.

There is magic in the feel of a paddle and the movement of a canoe, a magic compounded of distance, adventure, solitude and peace.

I have long believed this interdependence defines the new world we live in.

Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.

I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly.

Empathy is simply listening, holding space, withholding judgment, emotionally connecting, and communicating that incredibly healing message of you're not alone.

Wherever we go, across the Pacific or Atlantic, we meet, not similarity so much as 'the bizarre'. Things astonish us, when we travel, that surprise nobody else.

Calm mind brings inner strength and self-confidence, so that's very important for good health.