To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.

I tell you this to break your heart, by which I mean only that it break open and never close again to the rest of the world.

The stars began to burn through the sheets of clouds, and there was a new voice which you slowly recognized as your own.

It's not a competition, it's a doorway.

Tell me what it is you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride, married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms. Instructions for living a life: pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.

... Let us risk the wildest places, Lest we go down in comfort, and despair.

It's morning, and again I am that lucky person who is in it.