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- You get your confidence and intuition back by trusting yourself, by being militantly on your own side. ... Don't look at your feet to see…
- There is ecstasy in paying attention. You can get into a kind of Wordsworthian openness to the world, where you see in everything the essence…
- A big heart is both a clunky and a delicate thing; it doesn't protect itself and it doesn't hide. It stands out, like a baby's…
- Every time I see the bumper sticker that says “We think we’re humans having spiritual experiences, but we’re really spirits having human experiences,” I (a)…
- We are not here to see through one another, but to see one another through.
- I see that children fill the existential hollowness many people feel; that when we have children, we know they will need us, and maybe love…
- The earth is rocky and full of roots; it's clay, and it seems doomed and polluted, but you dig little holes for the ugly shriveled…
- E-books are great for instant gratification - you see a review somewhere of a book that interests you, and you can start reading it five…
- E.L. Doctorow said once said that 'Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can see only as far as your headlights,…
- Two things put me in the spirit to give. One is that I have come to think of everyone with whom I come into contast…
- ...[T]here should be a real sense of your imagination and your memories walking and woolgathering, tramping the hills, romping all over the place. Trust them.…
- We write to expose the unexposed. Most human beings are dedicated to keeping that one door shut. But the writer's job is to see what's…
- Little by little, in telling Sam all these details, I got to see the bigger point of baseball, that it can give us back ourselves.…
- Let’s think of reverence as awe, as presence in and openness to the world…Try walking around with a child who’s going, ‘Wow, wow! Look at…
- I realized I was going to get through this disappointing service, and anyway, you have to be somewhere: better here, where I have heard truth…
- I said that I thought the secret of life was obvious: be here now, love as if your whole life depended on it, find your…
- We cheated, you and me, and someone noticed. I noticed you; someone else noticed me. It hurts us. That's not so bad. So many people…
- When what we see catches us off guard, and when we write it as realistically and openly as possible, it offers hope. You look around…
- Try to write in a directly emotional way, instead of being too subtle or oblique. Don't be afraid of your material or your past. Be…
- And my fear of failure has been lifelong and deep. If you are what you do- and I think my parents may have accidentally given…
- There is nothing more touching to me then a family picture where everyone is trying to look his or her best, but you can see…
- Don't look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.
- Gorgeous, amazing things come into our lives when we are paying attention: mangoes, grandnieces, Bach, ponds. This happens more often when we have as little…
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