"Beauty appears when something is completely and absolutely and openly itself."

--

Source : Deena Metzger (2009). “Writing for Your Life: Discovering the Story of Your Life's Jou”, p.36, Harper Collins

Deena Metzger

“Iâ€™m ready when you are, Lucan.â€ â€œOkay,â€ he said, shaking his head in defeat. â€œLetâ€™s go get our boy.”
“When poverty shows itself, even mischievous boys understand what it means.”

Source : Carlo Collodi, Collodi Nipote (2012). “The Pinocchio Megapack: 4 Classic Puppet Tales”, p.26, Wildside Press LLC
“In order to comprehend the beauty of a Japanese garden, it is necessary to understand - or at least to learn to understand - the beauty of stone.”

Source : Lafcadio Hearn (2015). “Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan”, p.4, Booklassic
“The myth of independence from the mother is abandoned in mid- life as women learn new routes around the mother--both the mother without and the mother within. A mid-life daughter may reengage with a mother or put new controls on care and set limits to love. But whatever she does, her child's history is never finished.”
“You can make a beautiful thing, but there's no problem in it. I like the idea of doing a thing, wrecking a thing, questioning a thing to the point where you have pushed it to the edge, and then recuperating it.”
“You never know when a helping hand will change another person's entire life.”
“A man who can speak two languages is worth two men.”
“Women have to risk civil disobedience for their rights.”

You may also like:

Anne Lamott
Novelist
Annie Dillard
Author
Cheri Huber
Author
John Daido Loori
Author
Julia Cameron
Teacher
Natalie Goldberg
Author
Pema Chodron
Nun
William Zinsser
Writer
Barbara Myerhoff
Anthropologist