Our rest is formed by our waking life and our waking life is formed by our sorrows.

Still anyone who trusts a serpent deserves its bite. The wise see a creature for what it is, not what it says it may be.

I knew what it was to yearn for a life so distant it seemed that it had never been anything more than a dream.

Perhaps it is possible to discover more in silence than in speech. Or perhaps it is only that those who are silent among us learn to listen.

Even as a small child, I understood that woman had secrets, and that some of these were only to be told to daughters. In this way we were bound together for eternity.

But what we are given is taken as well, so that we know God's glory comes to us from His will alone.

He wanted pain, I saw that in him, and what a man wants he will often manage to find.

I loved him even now, as he took a knife to my throat, as I drowned in blood, as I whispered "Cousin, you were wrong. We were born to live.

I must keep my head and not give in to desire, for desire is what causes women to drown.

But in battle you cannot tell another when it is his time to enter the World-to-Come, nor is it possible to keep any man in this world when he wishes to leave it behind.

Pain was something to get used to, to inure yourself against. I would rather hurt myself than be hurt by someone else, and so I took up this practice with a sense of purpose and without remorse.

The longest way must have its close - the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.

For a moment she rediscovered the purpose of life. She was here on earth to grasp the meaning of its wild enchantment and to call each thing by its right name

Love yourself' is not 'Lust yourself.

A firm belief atthracts facts. They come out iv holes in the ground an' cracks in th' wall to support belief but they run away fr'm doubt.

When I go out on the field, I just put it in my mind that I'm playing for my family.

In the Spring a livelier iris changes on the burnish'd dove; In the Spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.

Life has a balance and natural order. I'm not fighting the flow anymore. My career right now is very up. It's happening naturally and it's happening well.

The main thing is to win.

There is no way into Presence except through a love exchange.

So when you look at the eschaton what you see, strangely enough, is your own face.