We don't realize that, somewhere within us all, there does exist a supreme self who is eternally at peace.

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.

He who cares for the sparrows and numbers the hairs of our head, cannot possibly fail us.

People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living isn't complicated enough

Aunt Elspeth and Auntie Grace stood in their doorway, ceremoniously, to watch me go, and I felt as if I were a ship with their hope on it, dropping down over the horizon.

They were erected purposefully to send a strong message to all who walked in their shadows about who was still in charge in this city.

When it comes right down to it, someone else may be signing your paycheck but you are the person who fills in the amount.

Feminism is about friends and sisters and community.

For some women, a man is their whole meal. For me, life is a full meal and a man is just the hot sauce. If a man wants to be my whole meal, I say, 'That's nice, baby, but right now, I'm already full.

Is it even always an advantage to replace an indistinct picture by a sharp one? Isn't the indistinct one often what we need?

I am not and should not be considered an economist.