Who is to decide between 'Let it be' and 'Force it'?

It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

I think of you often. Especially in the evenings, when I am on the balcony and it’s too dark to write or to do anything but wait for the stars. A time I love. One feels half disembodied, sitting like a shadow at the door of one’s being while the dark tide rises. Then comes the moon, marvellously serene, and small stars, very merry for some reason of their own. It is so easy to forget, in a worldly life, to attend to these miracles.

Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different.

We can do whatever we wish to do provided our wish is strong enough. But the tremendous effort needed- one doesn't always want to make it-does one? ... But what else can be done? What's the alternative? What do you want most to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself, in the face of difficulties.

But the more poetry one reads the more one longs to read!

Oh, how quickly things changed! Why didn't happiness last for ever? For ever wasn't a bit too long.