My Way – Quotes

Writing eases my suffering

Writing eases my suffering . . . writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence. Gao Xingjian

I always think of it like this: Rather than be the sun to someone and light up everything around them, I want to be the moon and light the way just a little in front of them when they are lost or uncertain in the darkness, and always be there with them when they look … Read more

Your body is the

Your body is the ground metaphor of your life, the expression of your existence… So many of us are not in our bodies, really at home and vibrantly present there. Nor are we in touch with the basic rhythms that constitute our bodily life. We live outside ourselves – in our heads, our memories, our … Read more

Above all, mine is

Above all, mine is a love story. Unlike most love stories, this one involves chance, gravity, a dash of head trauma. It began with a coin toss. The coin came up tails. I was heads. Had it gone my way, there might not be a story at all. Just a chapter, or a sentence in … Read more

As a newly married

As a newly married person, as much as I would love for my husband to buy into the ‘my way or the highway’ philosophy, you realize it’s all about compromising and finding some sort of middle ground that everyone can live with. Gabrielle Union

My way is to

My way is to develop the hidden potentialities of man; a way that is against Nature and against God. G. I. Gurdjieff

I’m a freeborn man

I’m a freeborn man of the travelling people. Got no fixed abode, and no man is my master. Country lanes and byways were always my ways. I never fancied going faster. Ewan MacColl

For me, so much

For me, so much of my life has been this attempt to find my way back into my body. I tried various forms, from promiscuity, to eating disorders, to performance art. And I think it wasn’t until I got cancer, where I was suddenly being pricked and ported and chemoed and operated on, that I … Read more

I have been struggling

I have been struggling to find my way back into my body my whole life. Eve Ensler

Confidence, to my way

Confidence, to my way of thinking, generally is all the magic needed to work miracles. Evalyn Walsh McLean