In times of stress, the best thing we can do for each other is to listen with our ears and our hearts and to be assured that our questions are just as important as our answers.

Mutual caring relationships require kindness and patience, tolerance, optimism, joy in the other's achievements, confidence in oneself, and the ability to give without undue thought of gain.

It's the people we love the most who can make us feel the gladdest ... and the maddest! Love and anger are such a puzzle!

Authentic happiness is not selfish, egotistical or narcissistic, in fact, it is essential in order for humankind to thrive

She used to say she could taste sleep and that it was as delicious as a BLT on fresh French bread.

Right now, all she knew was that she had the potential to love him greatly and fiercely, and she wanted to do so and nothing else very much and for many years.

My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.

Realism has always been called cynicism.

Love is ridiculous. But love is also wonderful. And powerful. And Despereaux's love for the Princess Pea would prove, in time, to be all of these things: powerful, wonderful, and ridiculous.

The greatest revelation is stillness.

True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself. False guilt is guilt felt at not being what other people feel one ought to be or assume that one is.

My only real solace? Sleep. In the absence of an explanation of anything, for everything, I live for it and what it can bring.

Happy Wednesday! Practice compassion. Lift others. Learn to encourage rather than criticize. You'll feel better when you help others feel better.