Liz, you must be very polite with yourself when you are learning something new.

I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises.

This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.

Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.

Do not apologize for crying. Without this emotion, we are only robots.

Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation.

At some point, you gotta let go, and sit still, and allow contentment to come to you.

Zen masters say you cannot see your reflection in running water, only in still water.

That’s the thing about a human life-there’s no control group, no way to ever know how any of us would have turned out if any variables had been changed.

Dear Lord, please show me everything I need to understand about forgiveness and surrender

There is a reason they call God a presence - because God is right here, right now. In the present is the only place to find Him, and now is the only time.

Some people come into our lives and make us fall in love with our self!

We're eyeball to eyeball and I think the other fellow just blinked.

For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood.

I'm a hopeless romantic. I buy things because I fall in love with them. I never buy anything just because it's valuable.

You're gonna laugh when I tell you this, man, but I'm starting to enjoy Eminem.

The intensity of vision in the artist and of vividness in his creations are the sole tests of his imaginative power.

I feel very troubled in the head and heart.

Make a strong and permanent commitment to invest your talents only in pursuits that deserve your best efforts.

But of the heaven which is above the heavens, what earthly poet ever did or ever will sing worthily?

...there is no safe level of exposure to ionizing radiation, and the search for quantifying such a safe level is in vain.