[A]t bottom, and just in the deepest and most important things, we are unutterably alone, and for one person to be able to advise or even help another, a lot must happen, a lot must go well, a whole constellation of things must come right in order once to succeed.

I think of you often, dear, and with such concentrated wishes that it really must help you in some way.

What happens most deeply inside you is worthy of your whole love.

Life + a cat ... adds up to an incalculable sum.

Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Do not despair if the answers don't come immediately. Some answers are only revealed with the passage of time.

A birdsong can even, for a moment, make the whole world into a sky within us, because we feel that the bird does not distinguish between its heart and the world's.

We need, in love, to practice only this: letting each other go. For holding on comes easily; we do not need to learn it.