Occupation: Author Birth: June 22, 1906 Death: February 7, 2001
My father taught me that a bill is like a crying baby and has to be attended to at once..
It isn't for the moment you are struck that you need courage, but for that long uphill climb back to sanity and faith and security..
... the most ordinary everyday living is as delicate, as breath-taking, as difficult, takes as terrific physical and mental control and effort, as wa….
By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class..
Life is a gift, given in trust - like a child..
The here, the now, and the individual, have always been the special concern of the saint, the artist, the poet, and - from time immemorial - the woma….
Too many people, too many demands, too much to do; competent, busy, hurrying people - It just isn't living at all..
I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living..
I find the weight of air/Almost too great to bear..
Great problems that face the world today in both the private and the public sphere cannot be solved by women – or by men – alone. They can only be su….
It is not restful, it is not possible to talk wholeheartedly to more than one person at a time. You can't really talk with a person unless you surren….
Go with the pain, let it take you. Open your palms and your body to the pain. It comes in waves like the tide and you must be open as a vessel lying ….
Beauty cannot disguise nor music melt A pain undiagnosable but felt..
The world has different owners at sunrise... Even your own garden does not belong to you. Rabbits and blackbirds have the lawns; a tortoise-shell cat….
The present is passed over in the race for the future; the here is neglected in favor of the there. Enjoy the moment, even if it means merely a walk ….
Only when one is connected to one's own core is one connected to others, I am beginning to discover. And, for me, the core, the inner spring, can bes….
Guys kick friendship all over just like a soccer, nonetheless it does not appear to crack. Girls deal with it like glass and it goes to items..
If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments..
For it is not merely the trivial which clutters our lives but the important as well.
Parting is inevitably painful, even for a short time. It's like an amputation, I feel a limb is being torn off, without which I shall be unable to fu….
Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood..