You will not know love if you do not know suffering, and you will never suffer if you have never loved.

Love and honor the world around you, and you experience life in its fullest. There is no “Other.” There is simply us. The all of us, the whole of us. The mankind of us. Anything else is a lie.

The courage to live in the present, between time and timelessness. No matter the circumstance, it is where life is found.

a man cannot hate unless he hates himself. Likewise one can only love another if they love themselves.

What your father never understood, is that what he loved most about her was her unbridled love and freedom to live her own life. He loved her colors and viewed her like paint.

We are all walking a thin line between the sacred and the ordinary. The two are never far from each other, and sometimes they are the same

Everything does not happen for a reason. Believing this does not ease the pain for anyone. It hides it.

Don't worry about the past and don't try to figure out the future

The irony of the human condition is that it is the narrow gate to life. Few find it because they are too fearful to look

There is no end to what we can learn. The book out thereTells us as much, and was never written with us in mind.

What we desire, more than a season or weather, is the comfortOf being strangers, at least to ourselves.

Infinite knowledge, infinite vision, infinite energy of the Soul is in the same state even today. The Soul has never been a sinner. The Soul is absolutely pure.

They had nothing to say to each other. A five-year age gap between siblings is like a garden that needs constant attention. Even three months apart allows the weeds to grow up between you.

The only way I could conceive of waving a white flag, would be during the process of folding it, so to be used as a napkin later, at our victory dinner.

Religious traditions and selfish agenda are laid aside when we are poor in spirit

The thing about the sun… is that it’s always there. Like sometimes, you can’t see it, but it never really goes away.

Love knows not from where you came, what religion you are, or even your name. Discover it and you will be whole, for when you do you have found your soul.

What are the distinctive characteristics, or marks, of personality? Knowledge, feeling or emotion, and will. Any entity that thinks and feels and wills is a person.

I like starting. It's pretty cool.

I wasn't really quite sure where Heath Ledger came from, and I think that's the feeling most people got when they were around him and why he was so extraordinary.

She reached into her coat pocket and felt two things she hadn't expected.... One was a wad of cash... she brought out the money. Leo whistled. "Allowance? Piper, your mom rocks!