The beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of those depths.

The opinion which other people have of you is their problem, not yours.

The ultimate lesson all of us have to learn is unconditional love, which includes not only others but ourselves as well.

Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.

People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.

I think that modern medicine has become like a prophet offering a life free of pain. It is nonsense. The only thing I know that truly heals people is unconditional love.

Religious patients seemed to differ little from those without a religion.

All events are blessings given to us to learn from.

I took a deep breath and slowly blew it out. He won't hurt me, I silently reminded myself. 'Never, ' Archer said, shaking his head. 'I'll never hurt you again, Skye.

I know that right choices by definition are the means by which life crystallizes loss.

Being Kind Not in some great deed of heroism; not in some great speech or act that may be pointed to with pride-but rather in the little kindnesses from day to day.

There is nothing in afflictions which ought to disturb our joy.

In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.

There is a way to change your past: Change your interpretation of your past! New interpretation, new past!

When you realize that you are an eternal being, you will laugh at things that used to give you anxiety attacks.

I will be a missionary in a remote village at some point.

Non-Russian readers do not realize two things: that not all Russians love Dostoievsky as much as Americans do, and that most of those Russians who do, venerate him as a mystic and not as an artist.