Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard.

Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.

If it is true for you, it is true for someone else, and you are no longer alone.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.

Pretend you’re more obsessed with this moment and a little bit less with the way it ends.

You must not try to make love definite. It is the divine accident of life.

Act as if someone just said there’s no reason to be afraid.

A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.

Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult.

Attention is a moral act: It creates, brings aspects of things into being.

In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.

All experience is great providing you live through it.