Where you come from, what you look like, and what your past holds do not define you as an individual--you are what you make yourself to be.

We are the masters of our reality.

What's truly important--and what I find myself forgetting and having to relearn--is that right here, right now, I am free. Free to be myself and to express myself.

To me, the haircut represented beauty and strength, that I was a woman who would live her life without the boundaries imposed upon her by other people.

You have to nourish your creativity for it to flourish...

Helping others without any expectation and without gain is just as much a gift to yourself as it is to the person you give to.

If I wanted to be free of this unrequited longing, I would have to make peace with the past and finally let go. There was no way around it. But did I want to be free of it - and him?

Only from the soul can you see the magic.

Grief makes gravity heavier and air molecules denser, so breathing is accomplished in a shallow, half-hearted way.

What courage must a human possess to stand at ease and witness the birth of the sun.

You can be all that you wish to be. Go for the challenge.

The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise.

Maybe some love was guaranteed. Maybe it fit inside you and around you like skin and bones.

Things that can't go on forever, won't. Debts that can't be paid, won't be.

We must be ever on the search for some persons whom we shall love and who will love us in return. If good will and affection are taken away, every joy is taken from life.

What really matters is not whether we have problems, but how we go through them. We must keep going on to make it through whatever we are facing.

One of the pleasures of being a gardener comes from the enjoyment you get looking at other people's yards.