nothin' but sunshine

There’s a loneliness that only exists in one’s mind. The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.

The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself.

I think that one of these days you’re going to have to find out where you want to go. And then you’ve got to start going there.

We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.

In your whole life nobody has abused you more than you have abused yourself. And the limit of your self abuse is exactly the limit you will tolerate from someone else. If someone abused you more than you abuse yourself, you probably walk away from that person. But if someone abuses you a little less than you abuse yourself, you will probably stay in that relationship and tolerate it endlessly,

I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.

We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

There is nothing noble about being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.

It is dreadful when something weighs on your mind, not to have a soul to unburden yourself to. You know what I mean. I tell my piano the things I used to tell you.

Being born a woman is an awful tragedy… Yes, my consuming desire to mingle with road crews, sailors and soldiers, bar room regulars - to be a part of a scene, anonymous, listening, recording - all is spoiled by the fact that I am a girl, a female always in danger of assault and battery. My consuming interest in men and their lives is often misconstrued as a desire to seduce them, or as an invitation to intimacy. Yet, God, I want to talk to everybody I can as deeply as I can. I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night…