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

Certain environments, certain modes of life, and certain rules of conduct are more conducive to inner and outer harmony than others. There are, in fact, certain roads that one may follow. Simplification is one of them.

Perhaps this is the most important thing for me to take back from beach-living: simply the memory that each cycle of the tide is valid; each cycle of the wave is valid; each cycle of a relationship is valid.

The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.

It's funny how you can be mad at someone one moment and want to hug them the next.

Woman must be the pioneer in this turning inward for strength. In a sense, she has always been the pioneer.

But I want first of all- in fact, as an end to these other desires- to be at peace with myself.