Faith does help mourners survive their loss, some studies suggest; but I imagine one still struggles.

I think about my mother every day. But usually the thoughts are fleeting - she crosses my mind like a spring cardinal that flies past the edge of your eye: startling, luminous, lovely... gone.

One word I had throughout the first year and a half of my mother's death was 'unmoored.' I felt that I had no anchor, that I had no home in the world.

All love stories are tales of beginnings. When we talk about falling in love, we go to the beginning, to pinpoint the moment of freefall.

There is always tension in women's gymnastics between athleticism, grace, performance, and eros.

A death from a long illness is very different from a sudden death. It gives you time to say goodbye and time to adjust to the idea that the beloved will not be with you anymore.

The people we most love do become a physical part of us, ingrained in our synapses, in the pathways where memories are created.

Grief is characterized much more by waves of feeling that lessen and reoccur, it's less like stages and more like different states of feeling.

It's a blessing not to be alone in your grief but it's also painful to see your parents and siblings in pain.

One of the things about grief is that it can bring a deeper perspective into your life; in the end, it has, for me, though it's also brought sorrow.

When my mother was sick, I found myself needing to put down in my journals all sorts of things - to try to understand them, and, I think, to try to remember them.

You can truly live if you can see yourself centuries after you have died. Just imagine it. What will people remember about you, how will your grave look like? How will your children live, etc.

We humans must confess, 'I am because he is.' Only God can say, 'I AM WHO I AM'.

I'm living at a very intense discomfort level because my career has been predicated on safety.

You will be tested as a leader....You may be tested with success, fame, and fortune.

Don't worry about tomorrow, let it fix itself. Today has a problem of its own.

Where there is love, there is vulnerability to pain.

Have faith in your imaginel act.

Once a secret society establishes itself within an open society, there is no end to the hideous mistrust it must cause.

Sometimes our thoughts and feelings are our most prized possessions... and then there are times to let go of your possessions and wander.

As life speeds by, nostalgia has a shorter pregnancy. Games still in progress are given the straight-to-sepia status of "Instant Classics" no matter how oxymoronic that phrase appears.