Our most beautiful dreams are born from our most unpleasant nightmares.

A genuine smile is one of the world’s rarest treasures.

A fish that is afraid of drowning in a river is ignorant of its gifts.

A diamond earns its sparkle from the pressure it endures.

It is in the storm, not the calm, that a rainbow is born.

A determined seed cannot be hidden from the world, not even by dirt.

Calm skies don't make skillful eagles.

If you cry in the rain, only the sky will see your tears.

Birds keep singing beautiful songs, even if they have no audience.

Today's storms help you appreciate tomorrow’s sunshine.

Train the ears to hear more, the eyes to see more, the hands to do more, the feet to accomplish more, the mind to think more, the heart to feel more, and the soul to love more.

the body is wiser than its inhabitants. the body is the soul. the body is god’s messenger.

She's been conned, ruined, left for dead, and she's not going to forgive any of it. She will soldier on, if only out of spite.

Keep Calm and Bend Over

Kartik feels like a country I want to travel—vast, dangerous, and unknown.

Fight if you wish. Deny what is before you if it comforts you. But nothing you do can change your fate.

Lots of old people don't become wise, but you don't get wise unless you age.

We choose what attitudes we have right now. And it's a continuing choice.

I didn't write poems for a number of years after graduate school because the criticisms of other students in the workshops wouldn't quiet down in my mind when I tried to work.

You come home to find your 17-year-old daughter engrossed in a book. Which would delight you more - if it were 'Twilight' or 'Middlemarch?'

Tenderoni, you've got to be.