“Kind words are a gift. They create wealth in the heart.”

“When you are unhappy, discover what you are clinging to and let it go.”

“Resting in this moment, we have no age.”

“Anxiety is the subtle and pervasive destroyer of our happiness. It depends on thoughts of past and future. It cannot exist in the present.”

“From Freedom is:"True forgiveness is one of the most healing relasing, and freeing gifts we give to ourselves.""You can't fake it (forgivenss). It has to come from an open heart. It has to be real. Otherwise it is pointless. In order to fruly forgive, you must be willing to open your heart and face and release the pain there." "It requires humility. It requites us to give up our rightenous indignation, get off our soapbox, let go of blame, and le go of th pride of being right. It means we have to be willing to drop our victim story, soften our stance, and if necessary, let our heart be broken wide open." Brandon Bays Chapter 8 on forgiveness. ”

“Even the rain in its night singing, / the night rain in its forgetting, / is a kind of light.”

“They walked along in silence, that silence just before parting where everything has been left unsaid and it is too late now to say it. Fern felt as if her stomach was full of words, words burning to be spoken, but her lips refused to unclose and the words remained inside her, seething, like a bad case of indigestion. ”