True growth is a process which one allows to happen rather than causes to happen.

To be alive is to be addicted, and to be alive and addicted is to stand in need of grace.

I would prefer a thousand mistakes in extravagance of love to any paralysis in wariness of fear.

Blessings sometimes come through brokenness that could never come in any other way.

Seek the truth, not what is comfortable. Seek the real, not the easy.

In every feeling, look deeply. Explore without ceasing. At bottom, love is.

The difference between work and play is only a matter of attitude. Work, fully done, is play.

Addiction is not something we can simply take care of by applying the proper remedy. For it is in the very nature of addiction to feed on our attempts to master it.

Zen is not about eliminating thoughts but illuminating them.

To experience a little hunger now and then can be a beautiful reminder of the deeper hunger of our souls.

First, the avid student must be aware that when the world was young it knew only seven things: water, life and death, salt, night, birds and the length of an hour.

There aren't many people who would say this about me, but the great thing about this life of ours is that you can be someone different to everybody.

While you are busy pleasing the crowd, who is attending to the positive demands of your inner-self?

The texture of her skin was phantom silk, not human., not blood-warm, but dizzyingly hot anyway.

As long as you are being true to yourself, you will always find happiness.

The woman who takes a woman lover lives dangerously in patriarchy.

Mere humans who root through their refrigerators at three o'clock in the morning can only produce writing that matches what they do. And that includes me.

Build step by step. Push yourself, but not too hard. Learn. Keep it fun.

Let's trade in all our judging for appreciating. Let's lay down our righteousness and just be together.

Fine, than I will not have to blame you for killing my friends with your stupidity. -Haymitch