There was a point that I stopped crying. It's not just because I didn't feel pain anymore, not because I didn't feel sorrow. It was just to keep goin….

I must spin good ghosts out of my hope to oppose the hordes at my window. If those who look in see me condescend to barricade the door, they will kno….

Yesterday from my office window I saw a crippled girl negotiating her way across the street, her shoulders squarely braced. At each jerky movement he….

It's not what happens to us that defines us. It's what we choose to do with what happens to us that defines us..

O I know they make war because they want peace; they hate so that they may live; and they destroy the present to make the world safe for the future. ….

Once upon a time there was a woman who was just like all women. And she married a man who was just like all men. And they had some children who were ….

Knowing it can always get worse, I try to be grateful for whatever good I have..

Music is the unspoken language that can convey feelings more accurately than talking ever could..

I like to think that we’re not defined by what happens to us…because so many times they’re beyond our control. I like to think that we’re defined by ….

I feel helpless, hopeless, too low to call out, too weak to think. Impotent tears dribble down..

Life is a journey for us all. We all face trials. We all have ups and downs. All of us are human. But we are also the masters of our fate. We are the….

I am possessed by love and have no options..

But the human spirit is resilient. God made us so. He gave us the ability to forgive. To leave our past behind. To look forward instead of back..

You will always have value and nothing can change that..

Always that tyrannical love reaches out. Soft words shrivel me like quicklime. She will not allow me to be cold, hungry. She will insist that I take ….

Work is the only only only remedy for life: for happiness, for interest, for stability, for security. Hard, willed work. Oh work!.

I have learned to smoke because I need something to hold onto..

The long days seduce all thought away, and we lie like the lizards in the sun, postponing our lives indefinitely..

I am over-run, jungled in my bed, I am infested with a menagerie of desires: my heart is eaten by a dove, a cat scrambles in the cave of my sex, houn….

Go to the ant, thou sluggard, learn to live, and by her busy ways, reform thy own..

Vanity is a vital aid to nature: completely and absolutely necessary to life. It is one of nature's ways to bind you to the earth..