I must try to be alone for part of each year...and part of each day...in order to keep my core, my center...Women must be still as the axis of a wheel in the midst of her activities. She must be the pioneer of achieving this stillness, not only for her own salvation, but for the salvation of family life, of society, perhaps even of our civilization.

Flowers always have it - poise, completion, fulfillment, perfection . . .

One learns first of all in beach living the art of shedding; how little one can get along with, not how much.

How one hates to think of oneself as alone. How one avoids it. It seems to imply rejection or unpopularity.

Too many people, too many demands, too much to do; competent, busy, hurrying people - It just isn't living at all.

It is not restful, it is not possible to talk wholeheartedly to more than one person at a time. You can't really talk with a person unless you surrender to them, for the moment (all other talk is futile). You can't surrender to more than one person a moment.

We must relearn to be alone.