32 quotes
American aviator and author (1906–2001)
“Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.”
"It isn't for the moment you are stuck that you need courage but for the long uphill climb back to sanity and faith and security."
on Courage
"One must lose one's life in order to find it."
on Life
"I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being concious of living."
on Writing
"The loneliness you get by the sea is personal and alive. It doesn't subdue you and make you feel abject. It's stimulating loneliness."
on Emotion
"For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair."
on Happiness
"Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way."
on Grief
"Not knowing how to feed the spirit, we try to muffle its demands in distraction...What matters is that one be for a time inwardly attentive."
on Mindfulness
"The here, the now and the individual have always been the special concern of the saint, the artist, the poet and -- from time immemorial--the woman."
on Creativity
"Woman must come of age by herself -- she must find her true center alone."
"It isn't for the moment you are struck that you need courage, but for that long uphill climb back to sanity and faith and security."
"Him that I love, I wish to be free -- even from me."
on Love
"Only in growth reform and change paradoxically enough is true security to be found."
"It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded."
"You can’t just write and write and put things in a drawer. They wither without the warm sun of someone else’s appreciation."
"Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like writing a poem or saying a prayer."
"It is only in solitude that I ever find my own core."
on Self Awareness
"Yesterday's fairy tale is today's fact. The magician is only one step ahead of his audience."
on Truth
"A note of music gains significance from the silence on either side."
on Art
"After all, I don't see why I am always asking for private, individual, selfish miracles when every year there are miracles like white dogwood."
on Gratitude
"Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to sleep after."
on Wisdom
