Your hand opens and closes and opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralyzed.

Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation.

Listen with ears of tolerance! See through the eyes of compassion! Speak with the language of love

I LOVE my friends neither with my heart nor with my mind. Just in case... HEART might stop. MIND can forget. I Love them with my Soul. SOUL never stops or forgets.

Whenever you are alone, remind yourself that God has sent everyone else away so that there is only you and Him.

Find the sweetness in your own heart, then you may find the sweetness in every heart.

Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.

When the world pushes you to your knees, you're in the perfect position to pray.

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

It's your road & yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you

Last night I begged the Wise One to tell me the secret of the world. Gently, gently, he whispered, "Be quiet, the secret cannot be spoken, It is wrapped in silence."

Greatness is the quality of time converted into production or value

May your life be illuminated by a spark of divinity.

Jealousy is a rather enjoyable emotion to watch.

My first duty to write a gripping yarn. Second is to convey credible characters who make you feel what they feel. Only third comes the idea.

Having children made me confront my true fears and trust in God many times over in a much more intensified manner.

Every company is its own TV station, magazine, and newspaper.

Simplicity is an enduring habit within a soul that has grown impervious to evil thoughts.

It's a man's world, they say; but in its daily textures it is a world created by and for women.

Nurturing is not complex. It's simply being tuned in to the thing or person before you and offering small gestures toward what it needs at that time.

Count on Jill Shalvis for a witty, steamy, unputdownable love story.