When we forgive and let go, not only does a huge weight drop off your shoulders, but the doorway to your own self-love opens.

Live today to the fullest, and forget about the past. Today you can create a new way of living. You can change all the rules.

Unbelievable! I said, "What would I be doing walking the streets at night as a stuffed olive- gate-crashing cocktail parties?

What if you were really meant to be with someone? But you kept messing about and having the Horn and so on and you lost them.

Oh, Marilla, I thought I was happy before. Now I know that I just dreamed a pleasant dream of happiness. This is the reality.

Listen to the trees talking in their sleep,' she whispered, as he lifted her to the ground. 'What nice dreams they must have!

I live and work alone and travel light, relying largely on my memory and making a point of letting #‎ intuition guide my way.

Realism isn't something most people associate with the fantasy genre, yet it's an essential element of great fantasy writing.

The secret, which is not so secret after all, is that the people who we love live on in our hearts, in the beat of our blood.

People need all the good memories they can keep with them in this world; they're a sort of steering apparatus in a life-boat.

Well, my dear, take heart. Some day, I will kiss you and you will like it. But not now, so I beg you not to be too impatient.

She is the only dream I ever had that lived and breathed and did not die in the face of reality." (Ashley said about Melanie)

Courage is rarely reckless or foolish... courage usually involves a highly realistic estimate of the odds that must be faced.

For every person who might reject you if you live your truth, there are ten others who will embrace you and welcome you home.

The more room you give yourself to express your true thoughts and feelings, the more room there is for your wisdom to emerge.

When a woman gives birth, two are born: a baby from the womb of its mother and a woman from the womb of her former existence.

I don't believe the United States is going through a midlife crisis. The United States is going through an adolescent crisis.

You get enough people agreeing in consciousness that Mexico is a dangerous place, and that dangerous thought will make it so.

I have known healthy, wealthy people who were depressed, and people with critical illnesses who could honestly attest to joy.

We are graced with a greater capacity for direct contact with our own higher power than most of us are in the habit of using.

One function of the imagination in autobiographical writing is to allow the writer to try out different versions of the self.

As we change, the way in which we are perceived in terms of our relevance, our value, our beauty, and sexual potency changes.

A child's hand in yours - what tenderness and power it arouses. You are instantly the very touchstone of wisdom and strength.

The fact is, the king was a good deal more than a king, he was a man; and when a man is a man, you can't knock it out of him.

No church property is taxed and so the infidel and the atheist and the man without religion are taxed to make up the deficit.

Concerning the difference between man and the jackass: some observers hold that there isn't any. But this wrongs the jackass.

He has been a doctor a year now and has had two patients - no, three, I think - yes, it was three; I attended their funerals.

A good legible label is usually worth, for information, a ton of significant attitude and expression in a historical picture.

Wisdom teaches us that none but birds should go out early, and that not even birds should do it unless they are out of worms.

Food banking as well as other antihunger programs do a good job of managing poverty by alleviating its worst symptom, hunger.

Very soon he will vanish completely in the wings of his own wordless stanza. [ ] but his stanza is not completely empty [ * ]

Make no mistake, those who write long books have nothing to say. Of course those who write short books have even less to say.

New techniques - often spinning out of technology and lack of privacy has resulted in new manipulative communication formats.

Let us make sure that the worship services we plan and conduct present that Truth in all its clarity and beauty and goodness.

What we most need is the prayer of fervent desire for growth in grace, expressed in patience, meekness, love, and good deeds.

If Christianity is not scientific, and Science is not of God, then there is no invariable law, and truth becomes an accident.

Peace, comfort, quiet, happiness, I have found away from home. Only your own family, those nearest and dearest, can hurt you.

I certainly understand very much what it's (like when) an expense comes up and you're trying to figure out how to pay for it.

The desire to believe the best of people is a prerequisite for intercourse with strangers; suspicion is reserved for friends.

Stories never really end. They can go on and on and on. It's just that sometimes, at a certain point, one stops telling them.

... they know little of the passions who seek to argue with that most intractable of them all, the fear that is born of love.

Obviously the commercial news media tries to get you worked up and terrified so you'll buy products that they're advertising.

Death to a good man is his release from the imprisonment of this world, and his departure to the enjoyments of another world.

Once again, her parents' problems had run through her life like a piece of heavy equipment, smashing everything in their way.

WORTH IT and perfect are different things. No one’s perfect, yet in romance, everyone becomes WORTH IT. And that’s the trick.

There comes a point when you have to realize that the sum of all your blood, sweat, and tears will ultimately amount to zero.

Lies are neither bad nor good. Like a fire they can either keep you warm or burn you to death, depending on how they're used.

Don't worry about having the right words; worry more about having the right heart. It's not eloquence he seeks, just honesty.

The meaning of life. The wasted years of life. The poor choices of life. God answers the mess of life with one word: 'grace.'

Jesus tends to his people individually. He personally sees to our needs. We all receive Jesus' touch. We experience his care.

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