Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

I mean you have been disappointed in love, but don't you know how many things there are to be disappointed in besides love? You are lucky to be still disappointed in love. Later it may be even more terrible.

The physical body is an agent of the spirit and its mirror. It is an engine and a reflection of the spirit. It is the spirit's ingenious memorandum to itself and the spirit sees itself in my body, just as I see my own face in a looking glass. My nerves reflect this. The earth is literally a mirror of thoughts. Objects themselves are embodied thoughts. Death is the dark backing that a mirror needs if we are to see anything.

Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is.

A person either creates or destroys. There is no neutrality.

Death deserves dignity.

The body, she says, is subject to the force of gravity. But the soul is ruled by levity, pure.