The one thing to remember about an adventure is that if it turns out the way you expect it to, it has not been an adventure at all.
At my glummest, I sometimes think women get to chose- between being punished for being unsubjugated and the continual punishment of subjugation.
There is no greater gift than realizing the constant presence of the Divine and His Absolute Power to create and restore all things.
There are a thousand beautiful things behind that look. A marvelous sort of ache that only a few people know about. Some miraculous sort of sorrow she's managed to walk away from.
I can trust in my parents' love. And it strikes me that is a big thing to trust, a big thing to have had, no matter what else happens.
To fall in love and to commit yourself to love means you should make your loved one the one thing you cherish the most.
I don't." "Don't what?" She asked, somewhat puzzled. "I don't know many things. The only thing I know is that I know nothing.
Certainly there is life and there is death, but even in death, if we look closely enough, we will find grace.
There's not protocol for falling in love with someone. There's no game plan to tell you when it's appropriate to do certain things, say other things.
Freedom meant one thing to him—home. But they wouldn't let him go home.
education is one thing and instruction, however worthy, necessary and incidentally or monetarily educative, another.
best solutions will not fall into our lap if we fail to grab the best available solutions and improve upon them continuously.
... not talking about things she doesn't understand to people who do or about things she does to people who don't.
Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted. And experience is often the most valuable thing you have to offer.
. . . for men felt therein the presence of that great human thing which is called law, and that great divine thing which is called justice.
I'm extra-good at wanting things. I want things until I feel sort of sick about them. I want enough for two normal people, at least.
This is the power of myth: that we can experience invisible spiritual realities and truths greater than visible, material things in story form.
The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart.” ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
The only thing cats love more than food is sleep. We have that in common.
Never does one so constantly see so many different things as when peering from a small window.
Putting off an easy thing makes it hard, and putting off a hard one makes it impossible.
