“In avoiding specific goals he had avoided specific limitations. For the time being the world, life itself, could be his chosen field.”

“Surely this feisty, argumentative female could not be his life mate? Docile, he’d specifically written docile when he’d filled in his request for a mate. And this was who the spirits of his ancestors had chosen? A celestial jest on their part perhaps?”

“Each person has a specific mission in the world, but all human beings serve like cells in a single body, working together in the realization of a common goal.”

“Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated. Thus, everyone's task is unique as is his specific opportunity to implement it.”

“It turns out that when there is some conspicuous gap or contradiction at the center of someone's existence, there is probably a very specific, obvious reason for it, and the reason you're avoiding confronting it directly is that it's something you don't want to know.”

“Most misunderstandings in the world could be avoided if people would simply take the time to ask, "What else could this mean?”