If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?

Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too.

Change — real change — comes from the inside out.

You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.

Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.

Everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are.

A lot of good things don't get made because of too much thinking.

There is nothing stronger than a broken woman who has rebuilt herself.

All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster’s autobiography.