You don’t take away my choices. You are my choice.

You don't take away my choices. You are my choice.

What is real and what is not is for your heart to decide and for your heart to know.

Falling for him would be like cliff diving. It would be either the most exhilarating thing that ever happened to me or the stupidest mistake I'd ever make.

I could feel the warmth of his presence as if a soft blanket had been wrapped around my soul, around my heart. It held me and protected me. It sheltered me and I knew I wasn't alone anymore.

Regrets are only felt by those who do not understand life's purpose.

If anyone can overcome a fear for the ocean, you can, little lady. Courage is being scared to death and saddlin' up anyway.

Oregon welcomed me like a beloved child, enfolded me in her cool arms, shushed my turbulent thoughts, and promised peace through her whispering pines.

Bad things sometimes happen to good people; the key to happiness is try to make the best of, and be thankful for the hand we're dealt

Tarzan-like men are my weakness, apparently.

(...)normalcy is an illusion. Each person is utterly unique. A standard of normalcy is something that most people of the world simply will never access.

A book is a door into another place and another heart and another world.

You must befriend a few skeletons before you'll find your deepest self.

In most gardens", the Tiger-lily said, "they make the beds too soft-so that the flowers are always asleep.

No school of philosophy has ever solved this question of whether being determines consciousness or the other way around. It may be a false antithesis.

We need to learn how to want what we have NOT to have what we want in order to get steady and stable Happiness

If you do something too good, then, after a while, if you don't watch it, you start showing off. And then you're not as good any more.

When you are present, you are transcendent of the mind and ego and so you can witness your mind and ego. You can be conscious of your thoughts without being lost in them when they arise.

The student armed with information will always win the battle.

Common European thought is the fruit of the immense toil of translators. Without translators, Europe would not exist; translators are more important than members of the European Parliament.

Hate poisons your life.