“Don’t you worry about a thing, my darling. You live your life.”

In my heart I’m independent, a bit of a rebel, a nonconformist.

Regrets are ridiculous, so I don’t regret, no.

You don’t have to be naked to be sexy.

Even from a very early age, I knew I didn’t want to miss out on anything life had to offer just because it might be considered dangerous.

I try never to be governed by fear; that’s how I choose things.

You have to operate from the sense of everything is new and you’re starting again.

If you enter the dark side of life, and come through it, you emerge with more strength and passion.

As a child, my whole life was books. They were my fantasy. That’s where I could go. That was a lot of times [what] saved me.

Sometimes your mistakes are you biggest virtues. You learn so much from the mistake. Those things that you think are the worst thing that’s happening to you can somehow turn around and be the greatest opportunity.

I find standing and posing for photos very awkward.

I’d like to be wise. You have to go through a lot to get there, but I’m willing to go through a lot.

I yearn for things, but at the same time I am just peaceful.

Even as a child I had a strong relationship with yearning and desire. And loss. Those things spoke to me.

I have always tried to be a woman who protects other women. I have a sister, I have daughters, I have girlfriends, and I was raised by a feminist mother.

I’m willing to fly close to the flame.

You can’t find peace by hiding from life.

Even Socrates, who lived a very frugal and simple life, loved to go to the market. When his students asked about this, he replied, “I love to go and see all the things I am happy without.

Your value in life is determined by the problems you solve through your gift.

The clock strikes off the hollow half-hours of all the life that is left to you, one by one.

Life doesn’t have a neat beginning and a tidy end; life is always going on. You should begin in the middle and end in the middle, and it should be all there.

If you’re really driven and you want something deep, hard enough in life, you’re going to get it.

O, You who are ever giving life to all life, moving all creatures, root of all things, washing them clean, wiping out their mistakes, healing their wounds, You are our true life, luminous, wonderful, awakening the heart from its ancient sleep.

This is your life – you must die by yourself, so for heaven’s sake, live for yourself and no one else.

You are much closer than you think to creating a life you adore.