Bad habits fill needs, so find good alternatives for them.

Basic human contact - the meeting of eyes, the exchanging of words - is to the psyche what oxygen is to the brain. If you're feeling abandoned by the world, interact with anyone you can.

Given the eclectic and constantly shifting nature of my metaphysical inclinations, I will probably never feel certain exactly what an angel is.

At times in my life, I have been utterly lonely. At other times, I've had disgusting infectious diseases. Try admitting these things in our culture.

If you're feeling abandoned by the world, interact with anyone you can.

Instead of fretting about getting everything done, why not simply accept that being alive means having things to do? Then drop into full engagement with whatever you're doing, and let the worry go.

Don't expect the future to look like the past. Clear away expectations, and let yourself picture a wild, grand new world.

Whether you've seen angels floating around your bedroom or just found a ray of hope at a lonely moment, choosing to believe that something unseen is caring for you can be a life-shifting exercise.

Although beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, the feeling of being beautiful exists solely in the mind of the beheld.

Standards of beauty are arbitrary. Body shame exists only to the extent that our physiques don't match our own beliefs about how we should look.

Every day brings new choices.

You get out of hell one step at a time." -- Abbie Sullivan, "Cinderella Shoots the Moon.

As for Europe, its claims towards Russia are fairly transparently based on fears about energy, unjustified fears at that.

It's important that I make a difference in some way. It's not necessarily how I make a difference, but I want to make sure that I do.

The rose goes on the front, big guy.

The laws of physics are the canvas God laid down on which to paint his masterpiece.

I'm one of those writers who, when writing, believes she's god-and that she hasn't bestowed free will on any of her characters. In that sense there are no surprises in any of my books.

A man who keeps company with glaciers comes to feel tolerably insignificant by and by.

An orator of past times declared that his calling was to make small things appear to be grand.

Set aside those things that don't really matter and do something with eternal consequences.

This discipline and rough treatment are a furnace to extract the silver from the dross. This testing purifies the gold by boiling the scum away.