A personal offense is like a scratch on a phonograph record. I couldn't move my thoughts beyond my pain. It kept repeating, as if I were stuck within its grooves. There was only one way to play beyond it. I had to forgive them, so my heart could take its form again.
The way of surviving is to find meaning in suffering.
I wonder if we climb to heaven over the ruins of many cherished schemes.
Life and death in a relationship depend on attitudes.
...appetite turns common food into the fare of kings.
Charm is the enchanted dart, light and subtle as a hummingbird. But it is deceptive in one thing: like a sense of humor, if you think you've got it, you probably haven't.