There is no one truth. There’s only what happened, based on how you perceive it.
There is a reason the word belonging has a synonym for want at its center; it is the human condition.
When you have been burned by fire once, you don't leap into the flames again.
I wondered why the head could move so swiftly while the heart dragged its feet.
The only difference between a wish and a prayer is that you're at the mercy of the universe for the first, and you've got some help with the second.
Joseph Obomsawin, the elder I lived with there, says that those who turn to animals do so because humans have let them down.