There are always two figures in a marriage, two votes, two conflicting sets of decisions, desires and limitations.

I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises.

This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.

Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.

Do not apologize for crying. Without this emotion, we are only robots.

Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation.

At some point, you gotta let go, and sit still, and allow contentment to come to you.

Zen masters say you cannot see your reflection in running water, only in still water.

That’s the thing about a human life-there’s no control group, no way to ever know how any of us would have turned out if any variables had been changed.

Dear Lord, please show me everything I need to understand about forgiveness and surrender

There is a reason they call God a presence - because God is right here, right now. In the present is the only place to find Him, and now is the only time.

It's not that success is guaranteed that we go to war. It's because it is the only alternative we have left to avoid annihilation

And, suddenly, as if her head cleared, she was quite sure that wonderful things did indeed exist. Even if they're only in my own mind, she thought, they're there and worth fighting for.

Grown-ups have developed an unpleasant habit of comforting themselves for their degradation by pretending that children are childish.

Abel Muranda fought off furious red ants with mandibles that could cut through a miser's padlock.

Giving up on our long-term goals for immediate gratification, my friends, is procrastination.

Write the story that only you can write.

If Christ were here now there is one thing he would not be — a Christian.

Custom makes monsters of us all.

The desire for knowledge shapes a man.

An acre of the best ground for hemp, is to be selected and sewn in hemp and be kept for a permanent hemp patch.