Like books before them, each of these songs, I know, could in the end prove to be the thing I need: a way out. A place to go.

He had what we often lack - the maturity to see that faith isn't something you either have or don't have, but something that ebbs and flows in the life and soul of every individual. Doubt isn't the...

You explore the possibilities because you can't steer a parked car.

A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and adviser when his absolute rule shall cease.

Truly enlightened people never seek to be like others, but rather strive to be superior to their own selves.

Starting today, learn more, laugh more and do what you truly love to do.

She really did trust Eliza. People made mistakes. She understood that now. And as Happy as she was to be with Ryan again, her friendship with Eliza was just as important. You only met a few kindred...

Forms rather than the flame. Andrew Murray said, When the Spirit does not work in power, it is proof that another spirit has been allowed to take its place.

Here and now, with winter soon upon us, that is a different matter. It is time to begin growing up.

I have never had parents who set good examples, parents whose expectations were worth living up to, but she did. I can see them within her, the courage and the beauty they pressed into her like a...

It seemed to him that all his life he had followed the ideals that other people, by their words or their writings, had instilled into him, and never the desires of his own heart. Always his course had...

"Listen to me, Bill," Richard said. "Let the librarian be your new best friend. If you like what she's given you to read, trust her. The library, the theater, a passion for novels and plays - well,...

The heart's transformation is not attained through the mind - it's attained through surrender, authenticity, forgiveness, faith, honesty, acceptance, vulnerability, humility, willingness, nonjudgment,...

Until we have met the monsters in ourselves, we keep trying to slay them in the outer world. And we find that we cannot. For all darkness in the world stems from darkness in the heart. And it is there...

So, on the whole, I'd have to say that no, people don't change, but they CAN learn to behave differently. I want to believe otherwise. If you have an argument that says I'm wrong, I'd be glad to hear...

Jessica felt like a heroine in a tragic, dramatic love story. She lifted her chin and turned away. It was all over.

The overplanners just take longer to be wrong and, when things inevitably go awry, are more crushed by the feeling that they have failed.

Fear wasn't the problem, she could deal with nerves, it was the excitement welling up in her that frightened her most. The unfamiliar emotion was too strong. Too needy. Too everything she was...

A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as for the body, Margaret Fuller

To work here with a good heart I'd been forced to smother the snob in me.

Anne Lamott advises, Try not to compare your insides with other people's outsides.

...you gotta go there to know there.

Matthew 6:33 says, "But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you" {NKJV}. Just

Yet she was still alive and she was here. Looking at herself in the mirror. And for the first time in her life, she respected what she saw. Bowing to her reflection, she said softly, Pleased to meet...

All right, then, her first rule for the rest of her days: no more looking outside for definitions. She might not have any clue who she was, but better to be lost and searching than shoved into a...

The important people in our lives leave imprints. They may stay or go in the physical realm, but they are always there in your heart, because they helped form your heart.

It was hard to leave. But it was impossible to stay. He was leaving from choice because he was young and energetic and adventurous and had long wanted to carve a life of his own. He was going to new...

I do believe in fate, Anne - not the blind fate that gives one no freedom of choice, but a fate that sets down a pattern for each of our lives and gives us choices, numerous choices, by which to find...

This book focuses on the attitudes and skills we need in order to let go of the past, embrace the new, cope with loss, and experience wisdom, authenticity, and bliss.

This bittersweet phenomenon of a successful event paired with no discernible political gain seemed to be a chronic problem for our group. However, we were experiencing a victory that could not be...