The ultimate lesson is that there is no immunity, no matter our age or the size of our retirement account, from going through constant cycles of integration and disintegration in which we are humbled and hopefully set to rights with the world again.

Regret is a short, evocative and achingly beautiful word: an elegy to lost possibilities even in its brief annunciation.

There are millions of people living Thoreau's life of quiet desperation, and they do not have the language to escape from that desperation.

David Whyte Quotes