Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
Life has a certain flavour for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.
To be a princess is to play at life. To be a queen is to be a serious player...The purpose of life as a woman is to ascend to the throne and rule with heart.
Shame is an ornament to the young; a disgrace to the old.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding... And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.
Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
The story of life is quicker than the wink of an eye, the story of love is hello and goodbye...until we meet again
During your life, never stop dreaming. No one can take away your dreams
We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants.
All my life through, the new sights of nature made me rejoice like a child.
The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.
Life has got to be lived-that's all that there is to it.
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference
Anybody can dig a hole and plant a tree. But make sure it survives. You have to nurture it, you have to water it, you have to keep at it until it becomes rooted so it can take care or itself. There are so many enemies of trees.
I'd trade all my tomorrows for a single yesterday.