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...

If you realize that you're the problem, then you can change yourself, learn something, and grow wiser.

even found myself overlooking my own flaws, for the same reasons. I didn't need to try to be perfect or in control all the time. There really was no need to impress anyone.

Why do you do these things to yourself? Not just what you did to the window, but the way you talked to Clary. What are you punishing yourself for? You can't help how you feel.

Where I train we smack our palms and knuckles against cinderblocks. This action creates tiny fissures in the bones. When those fissures heal, the bone is stronger. I can put the blade of my palm...

I may some day get a boyfriend and eventually a husband, but you will always be my first loves. - Sheetal, 14, Qatar

Handel, the one who taught Davy, when a bigger kid was picking on him at school, that revenge made a man weak, while forgiveness took a man's power back from the bully.

You may be afraid, but you may not let your fear chase you away from what must be done.

I had a long talk with my husband last night. And he made me realize that I have to choose which voices to believe. I can believe the ones that tell me I'm not good enough or brave enough or pretty...

Courage is a tool and a weapon. With just a little, you can build your life and use it to fend for yourself in the world.

Scott: I don't think I'm ready to be a grown-up. Kim: I don't think you are either, buddy. But hey, you'll get it. It just takes practice.

One day, I told myself, one brave and magnificent day, I will actually be cool. I

Some wounds cut us so deep that they stop us. Stop us from letting go, from growing up, from seeing the truth.

Reading was like visiting distant friends.

Sam's just dealing with some issues. He recently came to the realization that he's a twenty - year - old virgin prude.

If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.

Work on the deficiencies you're most embarrassed by.

If you push the fear away, the only version of fear available to you will be its crazy, irrational, or contorted version. If you're willing to feel it, and merge with it, its energy and wisdom will...

The gods only go with you if you put yourself in their path. And that takes courage.

... and yet could swear it was just then that I fell in love. It wasn't, of course, simply the onions - - it was the sudden sense of an individual woman, of a frankness that was so often later to make...

We can't change the past. But we can change how much importance we allow it to have over our future.

The difference between social media and a social life is the difference between eating a marshmallow Peep and dining on a tomahawk - cut rib eye: one is substantial and nutritious; the other is just a...

For me, reading was adventure, but most of all, reading was escape -

It is not all books that are as dull as their readers. There are probably words addressed to our condition exactly, which, if we could really hear and understand, would be more salutary than the...

I think someday you're going to be a great writer,

But even she had figured out that there was no point giving up a great job and following him to the ends of the earth, when he simply refused to make any promises about, or even discuss, the future.

The person we know at first, she thinks, is not the one we know at last.

Adventure, my dear, is as much a state of mind as anything else. One can travel the world and never find the excitement to be found within arm's reach. Remain true to yourself, but understand...