Pain nourishes courage. You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.

A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.

The heart is not like a box that gets filled up; it expands in size the more you love.

If it is true for you, it is true for someone else, and you are no longer alone.

Forgiveness … is a gift of high value. Yet its cost is nothing.

I do not think it worth while to wait for enjoyment until there is some real opportunity for it.

Resilience — the ability to brush off pain.

Attention is a moral act: It creates, brings aspects of things into being.

People living deeply have no fear of death.

We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.

April, dressed in all his trim, hath put a spirit of youth in everything.

Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its troubles, but it empties it of its strength.