“What would happen if you stopped fighting, and gave yourself permission to feel? Not just the good things, but everything?”

“I feel I am on a high. For the first time in a very long while I have a feeling that anything can happen. This morning I woke up thinking everything could happen, that things would just come to me, and that they would be good.”

“What good is everything Chris gave me if I can’t stop the monsters?”

“• The key to fighting is never to fight unless the cause is so great that you couldn’t bear not to defend it and the losses you are going to suffer are things that you could afford to lose. If you do fight, the thing to remember is that it is going to hurt because that is what happens in a fight and you might as well reconcile yourself to it in the beginning and then it will not matter when it happens”

“Stop trying to make thing happen for yourself, and let them happen to you.”

“His conviction that everything happened for a reason, and would come to good, gave him laughing equanimity even in hard times.”