A real love letter is made of insight, understanding, and compassion. Otherwise it's not a love letter. A true love letter can produce a transformation in the other person, and therefore in the world. But before it produces a transformation in the other person, it has to produce a transformation within us. Some letters may take the whole of our lifetime to write.
The difference between me and other people is that they all walk around with onion skins wrapped around them. Pre-meditations, pretentions, the faces that they present to the world, the faces that they present to themselves.. onion skins that come in layer after layer. They're on the inside of all that. And I... I am the inside of the onion skin walking around. I am only me.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
In making up the character of God, the old theologians failed to mention that He is of infinite cheerfulness. The omission has caused the world much tribulation.
If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done.
She thought about her life and how lost she’d felt for most of it. She thought about the way that all truths she’d been taught to consider valuable invariably conflicted with the world as it was actually lived. How could a person be so utterly lost, yet remain living?
The world is full of people who all want the same thing, and you have to do a little something extra to make them remember you.
An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.
Truth never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her birth.