...stories that rise from deep suffering can provide the most potent remedies for past, present, and even future ills.

The point of art is not simply to express ourselves, but to create an external, concrete form in which the soul of our lives can be evoked and contained.

This kind of forgetting does not erase memory, it lays the emotion surrounding the memory to rest.

The desire to force love to live only in its most positive form is what causes love ultimately to fall over dead.

Asking the proper question is the central act of transformation!

Forgiveness is an act of creation. You can choose from many ways to do it. You can forgive for now, forgive till then, forgive till the next time, forgive but give no more chances it’s a whole new game if there is another incident. You can give one more chance, give several more chances, give many chances, give chances only if. You can forgive part, all, or half of the offense. You can devise a blanket of forgiveness. You decide

Tears are a river that takes you somewhere…Tears lift your boat off the rocks, off dry ground, carrying it downriver to someplace better.