“Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.”

We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it.

You don’t have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.

Everyone thinks forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive.

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart.

When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place.

Every Christian would agree that a man’s spiritual health is exactly proportional to his love for God.

Don’t judge a man by where he is, because you don’t know how far he has come.

Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it’s thinking of yourself less.

Love is never wasted, for its value does not rest upon reciprocity.

If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.

We all agree that forgiveness is a beautiful idea until we have to practice it.

One of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts.

Forgiveness does not mean excusing.

We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.

Don’t get mad. Get everything. – (on divorce).

We have the power to break us and we have the power to heal us.

Baby, I’ve tried, but I can’t unlove you.

The hardest part of leaving is to make it look so easy… isn’t that the unfortunate fuckin truth.

I believe women still face a glass ceiling that must be shattered.

It’s always been hard for me to walk away from people I love when I’ve grown to become reliant on even some of their most harmful traits.

I will always love the worst of you.

Please don’t let me sleep. I’ll only dream of her.