“Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you.”

Butterflies and birds are like one perfect teaspoon of creation.

You can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town.

If we stay where we are, where we’re stuck, where we’re comfortable and safe, we die there… When nothing new can get in, that’s death.

I do not know much about God and prayer, but I have come to believe over the last twenty-five years, that there’s something to be said about keeping prayer simple. Help, Thanks, Wow.

Hope begins in the dark.

My mind is a neighborhood I try not to go into alone.

Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.

I can tell you that what you’re looking for is already inside you.

And she is going to dance, dance hungry, dance full, dance each cold astonishing moment, now when she is young and again when she is old.

Don’t look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.

I’m human, you’re human, let me greet your humanness. Let’s be people together for a while.

No is a complete sentence.

Everyone is flailing through this life without an owner’s manual, with whatever modicum of grace and good humor we can manage.

Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul.

But grace can be the experience of a second wind, when even though what you want is clarity and resolution, what you get is stamina and poignancy and the strength to hang on.

I think this is how we are supposed to be in the world-present and in awe.

Guys need attention. They need that nourishment, that little stroke of the ego that gets them by every now and then.

Through your attention to the little ones and to the poor, you can kindle stars in the night for those who suffer.

There’s a wealth that has nothing to do with dollars, that comes from the perspective and wisdom of paying attention to your life.

In order to lead a meaningful life, you need to cherish others, pay attention to human values and try to cultivate inner peace.

Attention is a strange sort of being, anyway, the idea of attention if someone appreciates your work. It’s always nice that someone appreciates your work.

Never pay attention to the rumors and what they assume.

The women who don’t seek attention are usually the women you need to be giving your attention to.

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.