It can be much harder to be on the receiving end of a transaction than to be the one who gets to give. In fact, being given to can mean being taken from. There is a very strong connection between pride and giving, and those who do the giving get to feel that they are worthy, while those who are given to often feel that they are not.

One can never change the past, only the hold it has on you, and while nothing in your life is reversible, you can reverse it nevertheless.

There are many pages in the book, many kinds of lives we each can live, many ways to be rich, and even more to be poor.

Compassion is the thing that leads you gently back to yourself.

The romantic myth is so strong that it survives the wear and tear of marriage by simply detaching from it and floating up on ahead, and women who are rather fond of the men they married, as well as ones who are not, go through life with a bag packed for the day when the shining knight on a white charger arrives, just in case he does.

Love is short, forgetting is long, and understanding longer still.

It takes great generosity to accept generosity.