"Peace. it does not mean to be in a place where there is no trouble, noise, or hard work. it means to be in the midst of those things and still be calm in your heart."
"All we must do is to move away the obstacles that are blocking our best selves. We add nothing, just subtract what isn’t working. The essential self that remains is far more sophisticated and beautiful than anything we could dream up."
"And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees--just as things grow in fast movies--I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer."