Different denotes neither bad nor good, but it certainly means not the same.

Did you know that true love asks for nothing? Her Acceptance is the way we pay.

It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.

If our goal is to be tolerant of people who are different than we are, Chase, then we really are aiming quite low. Traffic jams are to be tolerated. People are to be celebrated.

Safe Deposit...

At that moment I remembered something Cal had told me: that there is beauty in darkness in everything. Sorrow in joy, life and death, thorns on the rose. I knew then that I could not escape pain and...

I'm not mad. I already told you that. We all have mistakes in our past... and our future. It's a fact of life.

Watering a dead flower will not bring it back to life.

Our society shuns people for being a bright light in the world. Sometimes if you are too futuristic people do not like how revolutionary you are

Trying to change someone to suit your desires is a setup for disappointment.

I often think of life as a great darkened room with a mammoth - sized tapestry fastened to a stone wall. I believe true peace can be achieved not in viewing the whole tapestry, but in accepting...

you are right where you should be / now act like it

It's fine, I repeated. And whatever. It was fine. It had to be.

So you drive as far as you can, even when you can clearly read the sign. You want to think you are exempt, that it doesn't apply to you. But it does. Life is still a dead end. And we still have a hard...

Nobody is perfect. Everyone who has ever loved someone has had to overlook something.

You can't decide how someone will go about loving you.

Miriam came to consider Eliza a gosling born into a family of ducks, loved and accepted, but always and forever a goose.

Something he knew he had missed: the flower of life. But he thought of it now as a thing so unattainable and improbable that to have repined would have been like despairing because one had not drawn...