We burned with love for ourselves, all of us, starters of the fire we suffered- our love was the affliction for which only our love was the cure.

If the thrill of hunting were in the hunt, or even in the marksmanship, a camera would do just as well.

You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.

Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.

The sky slowly pulled up its blue dress to reveal night.

The more you love someone, he came to think, the harder it is to tell them. It surprised him that strangers didn't stop each other on the street to say I love you.

His voice was handsome and broken, like a cobblestone street.

To feel alone is to be alone.

Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us.

When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.

It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us...on the inside, looking out.

If in thirst you drink water from a cup, you see God in it. Those who are not in love with God will see only their own faces in it.

There is nobody who totally lacks the courage to change.

He that lives in a glass house must not throw stones.

Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.

Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.

It takes no effort to be ordinary. Ordinary is not even a challenge. You can do nothing and be ordinary.

Philosophy began when man ate the produce of the earth and suffered indigestion.

I think that we, as monkeys, want to live in smaller groups. It's very scary when we're all - as wonderful as it is - connected.

Now that the steam engine rules the world, a title is an absurdity, still I am all dressed up in this title. It will crush me if Ido not support it. The title attracts attention to myself.

How does one magnify a calling? Simply by performing the service that pertains to it.