“they simply never understand,
do they,
that sometimes solitude
is
one of the most beautiful
things
on earth?”

“…she was struck by the simple truth that sometimes the most ordinary things could be made extraordinary, simply by doing them with the right people.”

“Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.”

“One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.”

“Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive and wisely effective mode of saying things, and hence its importance.”

“[On meditation] …that's the single most important thing that I do…there's something about understanding who you truly are. The essence of everyone is so beautiful that it's startling.”

“My favorite thing on earth is humanity because if it was not on earth then no one on earth would understand each other's pain and sorrow.”

“Sometimes doing nothing is the most productive thing in the world.”

“The ethereal is gained by simply doing one thing, consciously. "I made no haste in my work, but rather made the most of it," said Thoreau. What is divine is simply being attentive to what you are doing in the moment you are doing it, assuming that that thing is not merely stupid”

“Solitude never hurt anyone. Emily Dickinson lived alone, and she wrote some of the most beautiful poetry the world has ever known… then went crazy as a loon."

Lisa Simpson”