If so, then it was also here where I came to know I can survive what hurts. I believed in my capacity to stand back up and run into the waves again and again, no matter the risk.

Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.

the unexpected action of deep listening can create a space of transformation capable of shattering complacency and despair.

There are two important days in a woman's life: the day she is born and the day she finds out why.

A shadow is never created in darkness. It is born of light. We can be blind to it and blinded by it. Our shadow asks us to look at what we don’t want to see

Choosing with integrity means finding ways to speak up that honor your reality, the reality of others, and your willingness to meet in the center of that large field. It’s hard sometimes.

Most of all, differences of opinion are opportunities for learning.

What is evolution if not creative adaptation and the progression of our own souls?

Agitation gives birth to creation.

Water is nothing if not ingemination, an encore to the tenacity of life.

Word by word, the language of women so often begins with a whisper.

Each of us must pay for the slightest damage he inflicts upon a universe created for indifference and stagnation, sooner or later, he will regret not having left it intact.

I would like to believe he's sick rather than just mean and evil.

Humanity is mind-controlled and only slightly more conscious than your average zombie.

A counter tenor is anyone who can count to ten.

Facts, I feel, should be ready to yield to manipulation. But unfortunately they're a stubborn lot.

The Things that never can come back, are several- Childhood-some forms of Hope-the Dead- Though Joys-like Men-may sometimes make a Journey- And still abide-.

All I kept thinking about, over and over, was 'You can't live forever; you can't live forever.

To answer that question honestly, I'd have to lie to you.

States in the world are like individuals in the state of nature. They are neither perfectly good nor are they controlled by law.

To be great, truly great, you have to be the kind of person who makes the others around you great.