When you change the way you look at a thing, the thing itself changes...By mastering feelings, she had come to understand the meaning of discipline and its reward: freedom and power.

We are all jellyfish, too pitiful and too afraid of being disliked to be honest.

Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.

Without darkness, nothing comes to birth, As without light, nothing flowers.

What is destructive is impatience, haste, expecting too much too fast.

We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.

The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind.

The most valuable thing we can do for the psyche, occasionally, is to let it rest, wander, live in the changing light of room, not try to be or do anything whatever.

There are some griefs so loud/They could bring down the sky/And there are griefs so still/None knows how deep they lie.

A house that does not have one warm, comfy chair in it is soulless.

It is, I assume, quite easy to wither into old age, and hard to grow into it.

There is love in holding and there is love in letting go. Elizabeth Berg, The Year of Pleasures

They were happy to help someone, to succeed at something, even if they weren't to benefit.

You find love, not by looking, but by giving away.

Dreams are like stars. you may never touch them, but if you follow them, they will lead you to your destiny.

Writers live in the world to write the sacred words.

Find the truth and forget the mistake.

The tender breeze felt my loneliness. It brought me your fragrance.

All the bruised lives, searching hearts...Everyone wants a love story but few will risk what it takes to live one.

If I look back after 10 weeks and say I really want to stay then maybe I can make that happen. If I say OK it was good, but I’m ready to go then I can go, but for now I’m taking it week by week.

but you could also look at it the other way. Like you’re saying no matter how bad things are for you, I can still relate.