Every choice brings wisdom in its wake. If you got to have the wisdom first, it wouldn't be a choice — just policy

Divine Dichotomy holds that it is possible for two apparently contradictory truths to exist simultaneously in the same space. Now on your planet people find this difficult to accept. They like to have...

Still waters run deep, I'd thought. Later, I learned that silence did not necessarily guarantee depth.

A magic realm of timelessness had been inserted into time, an intensity of newness and presentness, of the sort usually devoured by past and future. Suddenly, wonderfully, I found myself exempted from...

Working right trumps finding the right work. He didn't need to have a perfect job to find occupational happiness - he needed instead a better approach to the work already available to him.

He isn't stupid, but his interests are so narrow I doubt I could slip a sheet of paper in between them

I went to Cambodia to be humbled by the pain of others, and I was humbled down to the ground.

Sorry, I've had enough of running away, Sophie. Now I've got something I want to protect. It's you.

She said it seemed like the only choices offered were to want to be what other people were, or to be what other people wanted you to be.

Her very difficulty created friction, and friction led to satisfaction...

I will at least have gained one ver

It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.

Keep on seeking, and you will find. Keep on knocking, and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks, receives. Everyone who seeks, finds. And to everyone who knocks, the door will be...

Let me never be complete. Let me never be content. Let me never be perfect.

It makes you wonder. All the brilliant things we might have done with our lives if only we suspected we knew how.

Received a gift - it was the first decent piece of instruction about marriage I had ever been given in my twenty-five years of life. Does your husband make you a better person? Edra asked. There I was...

Overnight everyone has grown up. While she was becoming, everyone grew up and became.

But here is a confession, which I also happily shared with him at our last meeting, which happened as I was completing this book: I had never thought this deeply about my own craft and what makes a...

Makes sense to me. Sometimes starting over is exactly what a person needs. And I think it's admirable. A lot of people don't have the courage it takes to do something like that.

On him at the time of his majority, and was more than enough for his needs. He would live his own life, then, far from Melbourne and parents, carve his own kind of niche. But the imminence

It's tough to live with people stuck in the past, isn't it?

can change us, sometimes so profoundly that we are not the same afterwards, even unto our names.

anger is the emotion of a lesser person.

We do learn and develop when we are exposed to those who are greater than we are. Perhaps this is the chief way we mature.

When it comes to memories, the good and the bad never balance.

A very wise man once told me that you can't look back-you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future.

Two people can be part of the same event, but one may choose to live it quite differently from the other. One may choose to trust that what happened, painful as it may be, holds a promise. The other...

You've got to jump off cliffs - and build your wings on the way down. RAY BRADBURY

There are times to let things happen, and times to make things happen. Now is that time. You will either make things happen, watch what happens, or wonder what happened.

If the comments are wrong, there is really nothing for you to be upset about. On the other hand, if the criticism is accurate, there is still no reason for you to feel overwhelmed. You're not expected...