We sabotage our creative possibilities because the world revealed by our imagination may not fit well with the life we have taken so much trouble to construct over the years. Faced with the pain of that distance, the distance between desire and reality, we turn just for a moment and quickly busy ourselves.

I want to know if you are prepared to live in the world with its harsh need to change you. If you can look back with firm eyes saying this is where I stand.

You must learn one thing. The world was made to be free in. Give up all the other worlds Except the one in which you belong.

To feel abandoned is to deny the intimacy of your surroundings.

I want to know if you are willing to live, day by day, with the consequence of love.

Being a good parent will necessarily break our hearts as we watch a child grow and eventually choose their own way, even through many of the same heartbreaks we have traversed.

Vulnerability is not a weakness but a faculty for understanding.