Excellence does not require perfection.
We must for dear life make our own counter-realities.
She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
To live in the world of creation-to get into it and stay in it-to frequent it and haunt it...to think intently and fruitfully, to woo combinations and inspirations into being by a depth and continuity of attention and meditation-this is the only thing.
We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
I would give all I possess to get out of myself; but somehow, at the end, I find myself so vastly more interesting than nine tenths of the people I meet.