Pain and beauty, our constant bedfellows.
-Nick Bantock
The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
-Anaïs Nin
Rain clouds come floating in, not to muddy my days ahead, but to make me calm, happy and hopeful.
That one I love who is incapable of ill will, and returns love for hatred. Living beyond the reach of I and mind, pain and pleasure, full of mercy, contented, self-controlled, with all his heart and all his mind given to Me – with such a one I am in love.
The feet of the humblest may walk in the field where the feet of the holiest trod. This, then, is the marvel to mortals revealed. When the silvery trumpets of Christmas have pealed, that mankind are children of God.
Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.
-Marcel Marceau
Any path is only a path, and there is no affront to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you.
You cannot unconditionally love someone. You can only be unconditional love.... You don’t love another, you are another.
-Stephen Levine