Healing may not be so much about getting better, as about letting go of everything that isn’t you - all of the expectations, all of the beliefs - and becoming who you are.

The secret of living well is not in having all the answers but in pursuing unanswerable questions in good company.

Most of us lead far more meaningful lives than we know. Often finding meaning is not about doing things differently; it is about seeing familiar things in new ways.

Life offers its wisdom generously. Everything teaches. Not everyone learns.

The willingness to consider possibility requires a tolerance of uncertainty.

Our listening creates a sanctuary for the homeless parts within another person.

Big messages come in small packages. All it may take to restore someone's trust in life may be returning a lost earring or a dropped glove.

Life is as complex as we are. Sometimes our vulnerability is our strength, our fear develops our courage, and our woundedness is the road to our integrity. It is not an either/or world.

In the silence of listening, you can know yourself in everyone, the unseen singing softly to itself and to you.

Sooner or later we will come to the edge of all that we can control and find life, waiting there for us.

When you listen generously to people they can hear the truth in themselves, often for the first time.

Just stop wishing and start working!

Among the worst things about growing old is the loss of those irreplaceable friends who added richness and depth to your life.

Life sure gives us serious lessons, but I refuse to sit down and take notes. I can pretty well do that walking!

Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.

No one can write like Cheryl Strayed.

Be it known that we, the greatest, are misthought.

Jael returned the lazy smile. "You're not my type." "Well, you're not anybody's type," said Hazael. "No, wait. I take it back. My sword says she'd like to know you better.

So long as you "have" yourself, have yourself as an object, your experience of man is only as of a thing among things.

It will help erase the idea that politics is a second-rate profession and a dirty business.

Beethoven wrote in three flats a lot. That's because he moved twice.