It has been my experience that presence is a more powerful catalyst for change than analysis.

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.

You do what you were made to do. Some of us were made to read and write. Thanks be to God.

Solitude is the canvas of a thinking mind.

When somebody loves you, He/she may or may not say it but true love is when somebody put all their efforts in making you feel it..

And I think it's a real challenge to be up there sometimes with only a keyboard if they don't have a grand piano... and to try to win people over that way. It's really hard.

The necessity for co-operation between Europe and the United States is bigger than ever. Only by close transatlantic co-operation can we face the world's challenges.

It wasn't a conscious effort to have kids later. It was just the way life goes.

And if all womankind banded together and took the male path, the world would turn into one huge brothel.

When there are thoughts, it is distraction: when there are no thoughts, it is meditation.

Be the best Guardian you can be. Save lots of people. And every time you save someone, think of me.” -Maddy

Distance makes the heart grow fonder.