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The concept of spiritual healing was something I was raised with.
The reason we start things is rarely the reason we continue them.
such fickle days of love when pain and ecstasy share the same hour
The truest grace is not to forgive, but to have never found fault.
I love when I can reboot people when they are being mean to others.
The only way to remove pain from death is to remove love from life.
Magna est veritas, et praevalebit: truth is mighty, and will prevail
Suffering ceases to be suffering when we form a clear picture of it.
Small kindnesses often, unintentionally, produce the biggest payoffs.
It's been said that every new beginning in some other beginning's end.
In the end, we all lose it. Remember that. In the end, we own nothing.
It is in the dark times that the light of friendship shines brightest.
Maybe, if we just accepted our deaths, we might finally start to live.
We stone our prophets, then build monuments to them after they're gone.
The sin of the desert is knowing where the water is and not sharing it.
Usually the most interesting stories are written not on paper but hearts.
I am facing the most difficult thing of my life, my own greatest failure.
The kids who speak well, are articulate and intelligent, are all readers.
. . . Harboring an emotion as powerful as gratitude has power of its own.
To forgive is to unlock the cage of another's folly to set ourselves free.
Nothing heals the soul like chocolate ... It's God's apology for broccoli.
The truest indication of gratitude is to return what you are grateful for.
The greatest shackles we bear in thislife are those forged by our own fears
...even the most horribl e of nightmares is laced with the promise of dawn.
To deny our pasts is to burn the bridge we must cross to self-understanding.
I suppose I have an active imagination, and writing allows me to live it out.
Don't try to write what other people are writing - write what is true to you.
Sometimes its not the strength but gentleness that cracks the hardest shells.
Dwelling on him would make him a bigger part of my life than I want him to be.
Man has left footprints on the moon but still hasn't walked on the ocean floor.
Forgiveness does not require us to close our eyes but rather to truly open them.
Every life can be learned from, as either a flame of hope or a cautionary flare.
Life has taught me that to fly, you must first accept the possibility of falling.
A man's worth isn't measured by a bank register or diploma... It's about integrity
Everybody needs love. Everybody. Those who don't believe that frighten me a little.
Denial, perhaps, is a necessary human mechanism to cope with the heartaches of life.
No,' he said, 'you only have to live long enough to inspire others to do great things.
So often the pain of our life is no more than a reminder to take our hand off the stove.
Joy isn't the natural response to blessings - joy is what comes from acknowledging them.
I've never understood why people said 'in your own words.' Who else's words would I use?
Life is not a sprint. It was never meant to be. It is just a step of faith after another.
Life is the soil, our choices and actions the sun and rain, but our dreams are the seeds.
Could it be that to truly love a thing is not to desire it, but to desire happiness for it?
There are none so impoverished as those who do not acknowledge the abundance of their lives
From our first babblings to our last word, we make but one statement, and that is our life.
If God came to save the world, why are so many of His professed followers intent on damning it?
The more someone assures you that everything is okay, the more you can be assured that it's not.
Feelings can be like wild animals-we underrate how fierce they are until we've opened their cage
At one time in my career, Barnes and Noble bookstores categorized my books as religious fiction.
Those willing to trade freedom for certainty are certain to find the cure worse than the ailment.