“I realized that although everything by which I knew myself, even my body and this life itself, was gone, still I was fully aware!”

“They buried my body
And they thought I'd gone,
But I am the Dance,
And I still go on.”

“For it was my master who taught me not only how very little I knew but also that any wisdom to which I might ever aspire could consist only in realizing more fully the infinity of my ignorance.”

“I finally realized that being grateful to my body was key to giving more love to myself.”

“I am an ambitious person and I consider myself as still quite young and I am convinced that I still have time to realize my ambitions.”

“I didn’t realize it, but the days came along one after another, and then two years were gone, and everything was gone, and I was gone.”

“I knew the Spring was come. I knew it even
Better than all by this, that through my chase
In bush and stone and hill and sea and heaven
I seem'd to see and follow still your face.
Your face my quarry was. For it I rode,
My horse a thing of wings, myself a god.”

“He was twenty. I remembered twenty. I'd known everything at twenty. It took me another year to realize I knew nothing. I was still hoping to learn something before I hit thirty, but I wasn't holding my breath.”

“I kind of knew coming back after giving birth was gonna be a process and that I was going to have to be patient with myself and my body. [But] I definitely put pressure on myself.”

“Before i knew the best part of my life had come, it had gone….”