It will take as long as it takes. Your work is to take the time and make the space. Everything else is beyond your influence.

Once trust is built, distance cannot kill it. Time and space alone cannot destroy authentic connection.

The history of your happiness is the history of your feeling connected.

To know yourself, you must first sacrifice the illusion that already you do.

A soul mate is not found. A soul mate is recognized.

Only love that continues to flow in the face of anger, blame, and indifference can be called love. All else is simply a transaction.

If you do not respect your own wishes, no one else will. You will simply attract people who disrespect you as much as you do.

The important thing is for me to feel love towards my fellow human beings—and sometimes, that has to be at a distance.

Self-love is essential. Until you can learn how to feel loved in an empty room, you will not feel loved for very long in any other room.

There is no quick fix-all procedure to heal your insecurities. Like any relationship, the relationship with yourself must be built and re-built one kind, loving conversation at a time.

Have the courage to love yourself like you always wished someone would.

now i can get them teeth

The world of employer and employee, like that of master and slave, debases both.

One of the most important things a gardener does is look. The rewards are immeasurable.

All of us are displaced. Few people live where their great-grandparents lived or speak the language their great-grandparents spoke.

Heaven will ask things of you at some point, perhaps small things at first. You must be ready.

If you want to communicate, use the telephone

Coach Hedge grumbled as he tended their wounds. “How come I never get invited on these violent trips?

The decision to have a child is both a private and a public decision, for children are our collective future.

My inner world creates my outer world.

There are times when sense may be unseasonable, as well as truth.