Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.

Each day, and the living of it, has to be a conscious creation in which discipline and order are relieved with some play and pure foolishness.

Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.

In a total work, the failures have their not unimportant place.

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.

No partner in a love relationship... should feel that he has to give up an essential part of himself to make it viable.

One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.

In the country of pain we are each alone.

Women are at last becoming persons first and wives second, and that is as it should be.

May we agree that private life is irrelevant? Multiple, mixed, ambiguous at best - out of it we try to fashion the crystal clear, the singular, the absolute, and that is what is relevant; that is what matters.

Don't forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius. Think of the capacity to learn! The freshness, the temperament, the will of a baby a few months old!

Self-respect is nothing to hide behind. When you need it most it isn't there.

Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.

Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers.

A house that does not have one warm, comfy chair in it is soulless.

The garden is growth and change and that means loss as well as constant new treasures to make up for a few disasters.

Most people have to talk so they won't hear.

The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind.

The more articulate one is, the more dangerous words become.

There is only one real deprivation... and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most.

True feeling justifies whatever it may cost.

Without darkness nothing comes to birth, as without light nothing flowers.

Old age is not an illness, it is a timeless ascent. As power diminishes, we grow toward the light.

Dont forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius.

We have to dare to be ourselves however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.

Love opens the doors into everything as far as I can see including and perhaps most of all the door into ones own secret and often terrible and frightening real self.

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it

One does not find oneself by pursuing ones self but on the contrary by pursuing something else and learning through discipline or routine... who one is and wants to be.

It is sometimes the most fragile things that have the power to endure and become sources of strength.

Everything that slows us down and forces patience everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.

Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is richness of self.

We are all jellyfish, too pitiful and too afraid of being disliked to be honest.

For any writer who wants to keep a jounal, be alive to everything, not just to what you're feeling, but also to your pets to flowers, to what you're reading.

Gardening gives one back a sense of proportion about everything " except itself.

Though friendship is not quick to burn, it is explosive stuff.

A house that does not have one worn, comfy chair in it is soulless.

No partner in a love relationship should feel that he has to give up an essential part of himself to make it viable.

Revision is not going back and fussing around, but going forward into the process of creation

The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.

The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.

The surest cure for vanity is loneliness.

Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.

I also wanted to express the strength of cinema to hide reality, while being entertaining. Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness.

The loneliness is when you pick up and move, even if you are not originally from that place, and you have some memories that you want to embrace. Having a life in transit, I feel like you are always looking out the back window.

Reading - the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay.

The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family 'gets together' alone.

Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.

Fame doesn't end loneliness.