Our purpose in life is to grow in wisdom and in love.

Perhaps wisdom is simply a matter of waiting, and healing a question of time. And anything good you've ever been given is yours forever.

Suffering shapes the life force, sometimes into anger, sometimes into blame and self-pity. Eventually it may show us the wisdom of embracing and loving life.

Wisdom comes most easily to those who have the courage to embrace life without judgment and are willing to not know, sometimes for a long time.

The willingness to consider possibility requires a tolerance of uncertainty.

It is not that we have a soul, but that we are a soul.

From a good teacher you may learn the secret of listening. You will never learn the secret of life. You will have to listen for yourself.

If you carry someone else's fears and live by someone else's values, you may find that you have lived their lives.

Life offers its wisdom generously. Everything teaches. Not everyone learns.

There are only two kinds of people in the world. Those who are alive and those who are afraid.

When we know ourselves to be connected to all others, acting compassionately is simply the natural thing to do.

Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

You can't have everything. Where would you put it?

To shine your brightest light is to be who you truly are.

Happiness is not by change, but by choice.

Housekeeping is like being caught in a revolving door.

You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one.

I've never been more in love with anyone nearly half my age than I am today. I'd get married in a minute if I weren't still married to somebody else.

Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.