Everything that has ever been beautiful has been burned. Like you.

The dance had distilled her and she had become one with the essence of all that is.

Be willing to turn your attention to that which serves you.

Purge everything that's holding you back. Whatever it is you feel you are being deprived of, trust the limitation serves to bring you more of what you want.

...lose your mind so that you can gain a new way of knowing.

...purification was the point of such pain.

If you can love all who've betrayed you... you can taste sweetness in everything.

The point is to turn your grief into love. The roses are helping you find grace.

...anyone looking for friends without faults shall remain friendless. The choice is yours.

....it struck her that that perhaps everyone had the ability to see themselves in others. Even in the rocks. Even in the roses.

Love was not the point and pity was a poor man's pride.

If God gives you a Quiznos, can I have a bite? No way. You have to pray for your own food.

You want to know my name? --a hill, a tree. An empty drifting boat.

Labor is the great source from which nearly all, if not all, human comforts and necessities are drawn.

I love fashion. I like looking fresh and wearing new stuff.

I have great appreciation for people who do anything well. I think that it's very difficult to do what you do well.

God cares about you and your needs. Bring them to Him in a spirit of worship and thanksgiving, knowing that He is mindful of your place in His creation.

I think most religious people experience just as much doubt as they do faith; they just don’t admit it. (13)

The system you're brought up under tries to make you like the people that succeeded in that system.

Throughout the play everything possible was done to show the virtue, innocence and helplessness of the poor, and the abandoned cruelty, the heartless self-indulgence of the rich.

Hell is not a place, it's a state of mind and body; hell is obsession with a voice, a face, a name.