The place of true healing is a fierce place. It's a giant place. it's a place of monstrous beauty and endless dark and glimmering light.

Whatever happens to you belongs to you. Make it yours. Feed it to yourself even if it feels impossible to swallow. Let it nurture you, because it will.

You will come to know things that can only be known with the wisdom of age and the grace of years. Most of those things will have to do with forgiveness.

The healing power of even the most microscopic exchange with someone who knows in a flash precisely what you're talking about because she experienced that thing too cannot be overestimated.

Trusting yourself means living out what you already know to be true.

My mother's last word to me clanks inside me like an iron bell that someone beats at dinnertime: love, love, love, love, love.

But compassion isn't about solutions. It's about giving all the love that you've got.

Real change happens on the level of the gesture. It's one person doing one thing differently than he or she did before.

To us, they are not so much who they are as who they will become.

Be fearless enough to let love transform you.

There are so many torturous things in this life. Don't let a man who doesn't love you be one of them.

You know I still don’t like your…hobby.”“Didn’t ask your opinion.” Jake rubbed his aching ribs. “If you want mine: anyone using the missionary position twice in a row should serve time.

Flowers have the greatest talent in converting an ordinary place into a magical palace!

I have always loved to use fear, to take it and comprehend it and make it work and consolidate a situation where I was afraid and take it whole and work from there.

Though chains be of gold, they are chains all the same.

My way of fitting in was through jokes and making people laugh.

For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.

Since all people are in the image of God, all deserve to be treated with the dignity the image affords.

I spot detail quickly.

For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.

The Olympics is really awesome, but for some snowboarders, it's not the biggest thing in the world.