The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting, not in hoping, even. Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what it was, nor forward to what it might be, but living in the present and accepting it as it is now.

By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.

After all, I don't see why I am always asking for private, individual, selfish miracles when every year there are miracles like white dogwood.

There is no harvest for the heart alone. The seed of love must be eternally re-sown.

We are always bargaining with our feelings so that we can live from day to day.

One must lose one's life to find it.

...the only continuity possible in life, as in love, is in growth, in fluidity - in freedom. The only real security is... living in the present and accepting it as it is now.