Words kill, words give life; they're either poison or fruit--- YOU choose.

The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others.

Your own soul is nourished when you are kind; it is destroyed when you are cruel.

A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

The human mind is an organ for the discovery of truths rather than of falsehoods.

The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.

Love is as strong as death; its jealousy as unyielding as the grave. It burns like a blazing fire; like a mighty flame. Many waters cannot quench love, rivers cannot wash it away

The lesser of two evils is still evil.

Most social acts have to be understood in their setting, and lose meaning if isolated.

most social acts have to be understood in their setting, and lose meaning if isolated. No error in thinking about social facts is more serious than the failure to see their place and function.

Better the anger of a friend than the kiss of an enemy.

My story was not the story of a girl's broken dreams: it was the story of a girl who couldn't be broken.

Our peace comes from remembering our wholeness and that the end of desire is the beginning of a life filled with Light.

This great handsomeness I took into myself later when he desired me, but I took it as one breathes air, or swallows a snowflake, or yields to the sun.

Moving on means getting back on track to align with the opposite of what turned you off.

We try to fulfill ourselves, even though our inner voice tells us to become all that we are - still, we run from it.

It is the habit of every aggressor nation to claim that it is acting on the defensive.

I feel like I'm really lucky.

The tenacity of life is mind-boggling. We keep finding it where no one thought it could be.

Always thank your nurse. Sometimes they're the only one between you and a hearse.

By the road to the contagious hospital under the surge of the blue mottled clouds driven from the northeast - a cold wind.