“One of the things that kills Buddhist spiritual life is excessive seriousness.”

“Sometimes Discontent is unknown to the sufferer, a shadowed thing that creeps up from behind. It had been that way for Mary. Of course she knew there were reasons for her unhappiness, there are always reasons. One thinks, I am unhappy, I am discontent, because of this or that. But such thoughts are like a painting of sorrow, not sorrow itself. Then one day it comes, hushed and ferocious, and reasons don’t matter anymore.” - The Outlander by Gil Adamson”

“It's much easier than I thought it would be."Most things in knitting are, really.”

“It's difficult to let things go sometimes because although sadness tries to release the pain, love keeps holding on”

“I loved him right away," she said. "Almost on sight. Some things are so obvious when you look at them. And when that happens there isn't any choice.”

“The people who burned witches at the stake never for one moment thought of their act as violence; rather they thought of it as an act of divinely mandated righteousness. The same can be said of most of the violence humans have ever committed.”

“Here was a man who wore his scars on the outside and held a merry heart within. How much better that was than its opposite.”