Life is as complex as we are. Sometimes our vulnerability is our strength, our fear develops our courage, and our woundedness is the road to our integrity. It is not an either/or world.

Healing may not be so much about getting better, as about letting go of everything that isn’t you - all of the expectations, all of the beliefs - and becoming who you are.

The secret of living well is not in having all the answers but in pursuing unanswerable questions in good company.

Most of us lead far more meaningful lives than we know. Often finding meaning is not about doing things differently; it is about seeing familiar things in new ways.

Life offers its wisdom generously. Everything teaches. Not everyone learns.

The willingness to consider possibility requires a tolerance of uncertainty.

Our listening creates a sanctuary for the homeless parts within another person.

Big messages come in small packages. All it may take to restore someone's trust in life may be returning a lost earring or a dropped glove.

In the silence of listening, you can know yourself in everyone, the unseen singing softly to itself and to you.

Sooner or later we will come to the edge of all that we can control and find life, waiting there for us.

When you listen generously to people they can hear the truth in themselves, often for the first time.

Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.

Create and nurture a mindset that works for you rather than against you.

I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live with an unprincipled master and a jealous mistress.

When Barbarossa commences, the world will hold its breath and make no comment.

The majority of women commit the strategic error of attempting to excel in a maximum of fields in order to satisfy all their customers' needs.

Even as water carves monuments of stone, so do our thoughts shape our character.

Library campaigners are not prepared to stand by and watch something they cherish be dismantled brick by brick.

Your informed, "no," to a particular service allows another to offer their gifted and unreserved, "yes."

Mix me with violence, blend me with peace, Combine me with hate, and I can't face defeat.

A remarkable documentary that's also one of the most beautiful nature films I've seen.