“The painful things seemed like knots on a beautiful necklace, necessary for keeping the beads in place.”

“A danger of travel is that we see things at the wrong time, before we have had a chance to build up the necessary receptivity and when new information is therefore as useless and fugitive as necklace beads without a connecting chain.”

“A danger of travel is that we may see things at the wrong time, before we have had an opportunity to build up the necessary receptivity, so that new information is as useless and fugitive as necklace beads without a connecting chain.”

“Think of your pain like a bunch of red roses, a beautiful thorn necklace. Everyone has one.”

“My mother says that pain is hidden in everyone you see. She says try to imagine it like big bunches of flowers that everyone is carrying around with them. Think of your pain like a big bunch of red roses, a beautiful thorn necklace. Everyone has one.”

“Nature, keeping only useless secrets, had placed within reach and in sight of human beings the things it was necessary for them to know.”