“We have to remember that the way things are is not the only possible way that they could be.”

“Hawthorne ends the story this way: 'He failed to look beyond the shadowy scope of time, and, living once for all in eternity, to find the perfect future in the present.”

“Choose one thing you care about and resolve to do it well. Whether you succeed or not, you will be the better for the effort.”

“The nice thing about baking alone in the kitchen before dawn is that you can talk to yourself like a crazy person and no one suspects you're a crazy person.”

“Earth teach me to forget myself as melted snow forgets its life. Earth teach me resignation as the leaves which die in the fall. Earth teach me courage as the tree which stands all alone. Earth teach me regeneration as the seed which rises in the spring.”

“Bread is life.”

“That's when it happened. An understanding, a new realization, cameinto her head and triggered a transformation that was almost total. Maybe this was how all learnign worked in the end. The right kind ofoncentration deployed in the right way at the right time. If youpaid attention and sorted carefully, put things in the right place at the right tiem, it was possible to think yourself away from yourself, away from the things you could not do.”