It's less a matter of looking the other way than of closing our eyes to what we can't stop from happening.

Never give up; for even rivers someday wash dams away.

We lead our lives like water flowing down a hill, going more or less in one direction until we splash into something that forces us to find a new course.

By the time we arrived, as evening was approaching, I felt as sore as a rock must feel when the waterfall has pounded on it all day long.

I worried she might spend an afternoon chatting with me about the sights and then wish me best of luck.

After all, when a stone is dropped into a pond, the water continues quivering even after the stone has sunk to the bottom.

I don't think any of us can speak frankly about pain until we are no longer enduring it.

We don't become geisha because we want our lives to be happy; we become geisha because we have no choice.

At that moment, beauty itself struck me as a kind of painful melancholy.

A tree may look as beautiful as ever; but when you notice the insects infesting it, and the tips of the branches that are brown from disease, even the trunk seems to lose some of its magnificence.

If you aren't the woman I think you are, then this isn't the world I thought it was.

If you Have ever Fainted, You Are a stranger in the land of the dead!

God has great riches for you. If thy will seek Him.

fierce lovers.and battle warriorsboth comefrom the same place. there is bound to be, some bloodshed.

However, there is no legal and legitimate state called Israel.

Taking responsibility as a co-creator with God presupposes a basic understanding of how creation works.

I don't think the women in the TV series are really like that. It's certainly not my personal experience of New York women.

Seems like half my anxiety dreams are about airports.

Art is manipulation without intervention.

At some point in life's journey, professionally and personally, we have to be able to trust our preparation.

The public still ultimately determines what happens to you politically, by virtue of the casting of their vote ... and you cannot ever predict what will move the public in one direction or another.