life

"There's two kinds of women--those you write poems about and those you don't."

"Instead of sidewalks, why not sideruns? After all, the pace of life is faster than it has ever been, so I think our infrastructure’s nomenclature should reflect that."

"The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention... It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me."

"And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything."

"I am convinced that most people do not grow up...We marry and dare to have children and call that growing up. I think what we do is mostly grow old. We carry accumulation of years in our bodies, and on our faces, but generally our real selves, the children inside, are innocent and shy as magnolias."

"So many tangles in life are ultimately hopeless that we have no appropriate sword other than laughter."

"I am suddenly comsumed by nostalgia for the little girl who was me, who loved the fields and believed in God, who spent winter days home sick from school reading Nancy Drew and sucking menthol cough drops, who could keep a secret."

"Struggling and suffering are the essence of a life worth living. If you're not pushing yourself beyond the comfort zone, if you're not demanding more from yourself - expanding and learning as you go - you're choosing a numb existence. You're denying yourself an extraordinary trip."

"I had a dream about you last night.. You were balancing ten tiny footballs on your nose while dancing with a turquoise unicorn."

"You can't just wish change; you have to live the change in order for it to become a reality."

"And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of treesand changing leaves."

"I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to be unselfish… You see, it is difficult to get all which I want. And then when I do not succeed I get mad with anger."

"Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome."

"I just want to do something that matters. Or be something that matters. I just want to matter."

"I don't know how I look, but I know how I feel: Young. Goofy. Infinite."

"I want someone whose heart is big enough to hold me."

"The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere."

"Loneliness is my least favorite thing about life. The thing that I'm most worried about is just being alone without anybody to care for or someone who will care for me."

"We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one."

"Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced."