“It’s a mistake to think that we have to be lovely to be loved by human beings or by God.”

Honesty is often very hard. The truth is often painful. But the freedom it can bring is worth the trying.

Who we are in the present includes who we were in the past.

The best teacher in the world is somebody who loves what he or he does & loves in front of you.

The people we trust with important talk can help us know that we are not alone.

When we treat children’s play as seriously as it deserves, we are helping them feel the joy that’s to be found in the creative spirit. It’s the things we play with and the people who help us play that make a great difference in our lives.

Discovering the truth about ourselves is a lifetime’s work, but it’s worth the effort.

Like all of life’s important coping skills, the ability to forgive and the capacity to let go of resentments most likely take root very early in our lives.

People have said ‘don’t cry’ to other people for years and years, and all it has ever meant is ‘I’m too uncomfortable when you show feelings.

A love of learning has a lot to do with learning that we are loved.

Solitude is different from loneliness, and it doesn’t have to be a lonely kind of thing.

Whatever we choose to imagine can be as private as we want it to be. Nobody knows what you’re thinking or feeling unless you share it.

You make each day a special day. You know how, by just your being you.

The only thing evil can’t stand is forgiveness.

I don’t think anyone can grow unless he’s loved exactly as he is now, appreciated for what he is rather than what he will be.

Peace means far more than the opposite of war.

Everyone longs to be loved. And the greatest thing we can do is to let people know that they are loved and capable of loving.

All great actions return to God, from whom they are derived.

Today is a gift from God – that is why it is called the present.

Events of human origin are uncertain, but all is regulated and governed by the incalculable power of God, inspiring us not through drunken fury nor by frantic movement, but through the influences of the stars.

God hasn’t made anything yet you couldn’t conquer.

And I thank God I believe in God, or I would probably be enormously angry right now.

I have God in my words and the devil in my ear, and a sister who keeps telling me to find my magic.

For although God is right with us and in us and out of us and all through us, we have to go on journeys to find him.

For me, God is cold.