“You can find something truly important in an ordinary minute.”

All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair.

I think what you notice most when you haven’t been home in a while is how much the trees have grown around your memories.

We cannot stop what Heaven chooses.

There are no random acts, We are all connected. You can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind.

Do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself.

She had been so consumed with escaping her own misery, she hadn’t considered the misery she might inflict.

The words people do not speak are louder than the ones they do.

But she wasn’t around, and that’s the thing when your parents die, you feel like instead of going in to every fight with backup, you are going into every fight alone.

We need to forgive ourselves. For all the things we didn’t do. All the things we should have done. You can’t get stuck on the regrets of what should have happened.

Remember, the only difference between ‘marital’ and ‘martial’ is where you put the ‘i’.

Don’t cling to things because everything is impermanent.

Sharing tales of those we’ve lost is how we keep from really losing them.

The most inspirational man I knew only reached his potential by helping a child reach his.

It’s such a shame to waste time. We always think we have so much of it.

All endings are also beginnings. We just don’t know it at the time.

The secret to happiness be satisfied and be grateful.

I now say to myself, ‘I trust the process of life’ to remind me that even in the darkest hours there is still light and possibility.

The value of a conversation with somebody could change your whole life.

But a kingdom that has once been destroyed can never come again into being; nor can the dead ever be brought back to life.

Knowing yourself and coming to trust your feelings and your intuition will open up your life to greater possibilities and keep you moving toward your goals.

The only thing you can control in life is your reaction to situations as they unfold. 

When I say be creative I don’t mean that you should all go and become great painters and great poets. I simply mean let your life be a painting, let your life be a poem.

Let go of the people who don’t bring positive energy into your life.

Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.