One is given strength to bear what happens to one, but not the 100 and 1 different things that might happen.

Other than heaven, the only place where one's heart is completely safe from the dangers of love is hell.

Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.

The discomfiture we feel may be our most accurate human sensation; reminding us we are not quite "at home" here.

I sometimes pray not for self-knowledge in general but for just so much self knowledge at the moment as I can bear and use at the moment; the little daily dose.

There is no use saying you chose to lie down when it has become impossible to stand up.

I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.