“In everyone there sleepsA sense of life lived according to love.To some it means the difference they could makeBy loving others, but across most it sweeps, As all they might have done had they been loved.That nothing cures.”

“When I came into your life your life was over. It had a beginning, a middle, and an end. This is the end. You can say that things could have turned out differently. That they could have been some other way. But what does that mean? They are not some other way. They are this way.”

“There’s nothing complicated or expensive about living purposefully and meaningfully. And we don’t have to travel to some exotic place to “find ourselves,” or to make a difference. The most effective practices that afford us the most happiness and meaning are done within the context of our daily lives. This is the premise of all my work – bringing our ideas and practices into our daily life. The place we make a real difference is within our own personal lives.”

“There seemed a deep sense of life and joy about all; and although no airs blew from out the Heavens, yet everything had motion through the gentle sweepings to and fro of innumberable butterflies, that might have been mistaken for tullips with wings.”

“I wandered through the streets thinking of all the things I might have said and might have done had I been other than I was.”

“Maybe if she had known some other way to try, she might have made his face different. But what the other way could be, she had no idea.”