I’ve been the oldest child since before you were born
Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place, but there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around.
Nathan, how can you stand playing the same piece over and over again?” And Grandpa Nate answered, “Why don’t you ask me how I can stand making love to the same woman over and over again?
Friendship depends on interlocking time, place, and state of mind.
…I didn’t run away to come home the same. -Claudia
It takes more courage to disturb the neighborhood than it takes to disturb the universe. And the price is often higher.
In some way, every creative action disturbs the universe.
It is sometimes necessary to use unnecessary words like thank you and please just to make life prettier.
But lying in bed just before going to sleep is the worst time for organized thinking; it is the best time for free thinking. Ideas drift like clouds in an undecided breeze, taking first this direction and then that.
I waited for her to catch up, and when I did, she slowed down, and I missed seeing the light in her hair. I never told Nadia how much I liked seeing the halo the sunlight made of her hair. Sometimes silence is a habit that hurts.
He also learned to regard each port of call as part of the journey and not as destination. Every voyage begins when you do.
Sometimes it takes more courage to be the passenger than to be the driver.
Secrets are the kind of adventure she needs. Secrets are safe, and they do much to make you different. On the inside where it counts.
Before you can be anything, you have to be yourself. That’s the hardest thing to find.
Because after a time having a secret and nobody knowing you have a secret is no fun. And although you don’t want others to know what the secret is, you want them to at least know you have one.
Let me first talk about our brains as a personal radio telescope. Let me talk first about its wonderful built-in wiring for tuning out the static of our civilization in order to better tune in its symphony.