The real "it is well" is something I say from the ground, having fallen.

Because they know the name of what I am looking for, they think they know what I am looking for!

—Antonio Porchia

You are a puppet, but in the hands of the infinite, which may be your own.

—Antonio Porchia

If those who owe us nothing gave us nothing, how poor we would be.

—Antonio Porchia

No one understands that you have given everything. You must give more.

—Antonio Porchia

He who has made a thousand things and he who has made none, both feel the same desire: to make something.

—Antonio Porchia

When I'm with you, I feel a kind of calm I've never felt in my life. I'm tangled up in you and you're tangled up in me and it feels right. Like it was meant to be.

—Rachel Gibson in Tangled Up In You

Romance is tempestuous. Love is calm.

—Mason Cooley

Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important. Just lie down.

—Natalie Goldberg

Calmness is the cradle of power.

—Josiah Gilbert Holland