The point is to turn your grief into love. The roses are helping you find grace.

The dance had distilled her and she had become one with the essence of all that is.

Be willing to turn your attention to that which serves you.

Purge everything that's holding you back. Whatever it is you feel you are being deprived of, trust the limitation serves to bring you more of what you want.

Everything that has ever been beautiful has been burned. Like you.

...lose your mind so that you can gain a new way of knowing.

...purification was the point of such pain.

If you can love all who've betrayed you... you can taste sweetness in everything.

...anyone looking for friends without faults shall remain friendless. The choice is yours.

....it struck her that that perhaps everyone had the ability to see themselves in others. Even in the rocks. Even in the roses.

Love was not the point and pity was a poor man's pride.

Most people spend their entire lives just trying to live life

Be a Columbus smell the fragrance of the new lands and discover them.

This goes against everything that I am, Sarai," he says and then kisses me. "No, it doesn't," I whisper and kiss him back. "It's you becoming more of who you really are.

To be part of building a movement, you have to keep moving.

One cannot be too careful with words, they change their minds just as people do.

A small country cannot contend with a great; the few cannot contend with the many; the weak cannot contend with the strong

Even an ice cream parlor - a definite advantage - does not alleviate the sorrow I feel for a town lacking a bookstore.

The last time somebody said, 'I find I can write much better with a word processor', I replied, 'They used to say the same thing about drugs'.

When people tell me they've learned from experience, I tell them the trick is to learn from other people's experience.