Alarmingly Charming

"Now all you can do is wait. It must be hard for you, but there is a right time for everything. Like the ebb and flow of tides. No one can do anything to change them. When it is time to wait, you must wait."

"I’m unapologetic not because I’m strong-willed or over-confident. I’m unapologetic because this is it; this is my life. There is nothing I can do, no-one I can please. I am a person with a strong sense of being, that’s all."

"Life’s under no obligation to give us what we expect."

"Vulnerability is the only authentic state. Being vulnerable means being open, for wounding, but also for pleasure. Being open to the wounds of life means also being open to the bounty and beauty. Don’t mask or deny your vulnerability: it is your greatest asset. Be vulnerable: quake and shake in your boots with it. The new goodness that is coming to you, in the form of people, situations, and things can only come to you when you are vulnerable and open."

"I soon realized that no journey carries one far unless, as it extends into the world around us, it goes an equal distance into the world within."

"Do you ever wonder whether people would like you more or less if they could see inside you? …I always wonder about that. If people could see me the way I see myself— if they could live in my memories— would anyone love me?"

"I’ll just say that insanity is the inability to communicate your ideas. It’s as if you were in a foreign country, able to see and understand everything around you but incapable of explaining what you need to know or of being helped, because you don’t understand the language they speak there.

And all of us, one way or another, are insane."