Whatever it takes to break your heart and wake you up is grace.

You don't actually get over things… you incorporate them. They become part of everything you are. I don't mean that you walk about crying all the time. But you change.

The more we remember that life is a gift-that everything changes, we're not in control-the stronger our sense of well-being becomes.

joy is not just about being happy. Joy is a rigorous spiritual practice of saying yes to life on life’s terms,

The French have a term for this brazenness: je m’en foutisme, the brave art of not giving a damn.

joy is not just about being happy. Joy is a rigorous spiritual practice of saying yes to life on life’s terms

As one widow put it to me, “Strength doesn’t mean being able to stand up to anything, but being able to crawl on your belly a long, long time before you can stand up again.

Maybe history wouldn't have to repeat itself if we listened once in awhile.

I should be contentto look at a mountainfor what it isand not as a comment on my life.

You have to push through every difficulty to have a breakthrough.

There is no other solution to a man's problems but the day's honest work the day's honest decisions the day's generous utterance and the day's good deed.

I will never look at you in the same way ever again. I'll never be that girl again. The girl who comes running back every time you push her away, the girl who loves you anyway.

You're not me. You can't feel like I feel." "I can feel." "No you can't. You just choose not to feel or something and everything's fine." "It's not fine. It's just not so bad.

We've made three World T20 finals and won one - that's not by power-hitting. We've beaten the power-hitting sides quite easily and convincingly in all of those tournaments.

Spokespeople sell women the Iron Maiden and name her "Health": if public discourse were really concerned with women's health, it would turn angrily upon this aspect of the beauty myth.

It is an ideology born out of hatred and its adherents belong to no religion, culture or civilisation.

It is impossible for you to take power over the future because it isn't even real...