Listen. Think. Feel. Know.

“I’ve always liked quiet people: You never know if they’re dancing in a daydream or if they’re carrying the weight of the world.”

“If it gets awkward, let it be awkward. That awkwardness is something they created. You don’t owe anyone a performance of being okay when you are not feeling okay so that they can feel better about themselves.”

The deepest feeling of a compassion that does not seek to alter anything, paradoxically, alters everything.

“To love a person it to see all of their magic, and to remind them of it when they have forgotten.”

“The heavy is the root of the light.

“Go and do the things you can’t. That is how you get to do them.”

“What is born will die, what has been gathered will be dispersed, what has been accumulated will be exhausted, what has been built up will collapse and what has been high will be brought low.”

“Nothing beautiful without struggle.”

“I loved to sleep with the window open. Rainy nights were the best of all: I would open the window and put my head on the pillow and close my eyes and feel the wind on my face and listen to the trees sway and creak.”