I think ideas only lead to change for intellectual people; and not even them. What really leads to change is experience. Life itself is the teacher.

Is it possible to live so defensively that you never get to live at all?

Anger is just a demand for change, a passionate wish for things to be different.

Perhaps wisdom is simply a matter of waiting, and healing a question of time. And anything good you've ever been given is yours forever.

I have even learned to respond to someone crying by just listening. In the old days I used to reach for the tissues, until I realized that passing a person a tissue may be just another way to shut them down, to take them out of their experience of sadness and grief. Now I just listen. When they have cried all they need to cry, they find me there with them.

Our wounds are our sources of growth.

Most of us lead far more meaningful lives than we know. Often finding meaning is not about doing things differently; it is about seeing familiar things in new ways.