In love there is no because..

You won't be happy anywhere until you're happy somewhere..

But forgiveness is the act of not putting anyone out of your heart, even those who are acting out of deep ignorance or out of confusion and pain..

There is no balm of Gilead, No salve, no soothing ointment To stay the pain of one who's had In love a disappointment-- Unless it be that healing lot….

So we [with Kate DiCamillo] would act them out, we would toss ideas back and forth, we would laugh, we would argue. Sometimes it went really well, so….

We become pitiable and ridiculous when we imbibe an unreasoned mysticism in our life without any natural or substantial basis. People like us, who ar….

Pain is not a punishment; pleasure is not a reward..

One of the essential tasks for living a wise life is letting go. Letting go is the path to freedom. It is only by letting go of the hopes, the fears,….

Knowledge is after all a non-rivalrous good.

Once again your mind explodes with a searing pain. A floodgate of memories bursts wide. Yet it is her face that keeps haunting you. Always her face. ….

If you love someone, you'd rather suffer the pain alone to spare them..

God has always been the head of my life, even before I knew it..

The thing is, the only real sign of life is growth. And growth requires pain. So to choose life is to accept pain..

Who do you serve? Do you serve somebody? I serve the poem, no one..

Education liberates a woman..

I was always interested in doing it, but I was so content with my life that I didn't really go after it..

What do we think of sex on television? Frankly, I think it's a pain. For one thing, the cable box gets wedged into your back and gets real uncomforta….

Trials are not arbitrary. When I speak about them, I am referring to the mindful suffering.Man has come to his present development thanks to his hard….

...friendship is something you do..

She had had the pain; it had been like being boiled alive in scalding oil and not being able to die to get free of it.

Affairs are loaded with romanticism, morality, mythology, and intense emotions. They're not really about sex, but about pain and fear and the desire ….