120 Quotes by Naomi Shihab Nye

My mother used to tell me when I went somewhere, "Please leave your foolishness at home." But how could I do that? It was stuck on me.

Being alive is a common road. It's what we notice makes us different.

Mystery: Everything felt better before you got there than when you actually got there. When you actually got there, you didn't quite have the energy to be there.

I am looking for the human who admits his flaws Who shocks the adversary By being kinder not stronger What would that be like? We don't even know

Maybe when your mother died young, you became instantly old.

Because sometimes I live in a hurricane of words and not one of them can save me.

I'm writing mostly to thank you for living you eighty years and to tell you I love you and think of you often.

I Still Have Everything You Gave Me It is dusty on the edges. It is slightly rotten. I guard it without thinking. I focus on it once a year when I shake it out in the wind. I do not ache. I would not trade.

I support all people on earth who have bodies like and unlike my body...