Mortification of the flesh has been held all the world over as a condition of spiritual progress.

Where there is love there is life.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

True beauty lies in purity of the heart.

The future depends on what you do today.

Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality. Cowards can never be moral.

In a gentle way, you can shake the world

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them.

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

Relationships are based on four principles: respect, understanding, acceptance and appreciation.

Life without Ethan was something worse than a nightmare.It was real.So real that I refused to believe it.

There are those who say that seeing is believing. I am telling you that believing is seeing.

Suffering can thus be seen in large part as a kind of resistance or reactivity to the pain of the present moment. (p. 74)

Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another's, were no longer our own, individual, discrete.

Life provides the substance for poetry we just have to put it to paper

If love means never having to say you're sorry, then marriage means always having to say everything twice.

You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music.

Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.

He’s so beautiful,” she said wistfully. “He’s like an angel.” “Yep,” I agreed flatly. “The one that fell.

No one can be cured of being who they are.