“You can hide from others, but you can't hide from yourself.”

“When you're emotionally weak, but psychically smiling. When you want to be loved but can't be loved. When you try to feel special, but realize you're just one out of many. When you cry about every ...”

“Once I was everything, now I'm nothing.You won't only doubt yourself, you doubt life.”

“Does someone else care as much about you as I do?”

“It's okay for you to lie but not for me to try”

“You're not to blame, it's them for not understanding”

“At this moment, you are seamlessly flowing with the cosmos. There is no difference between your breathing and the breathing of the rain forest, between your bloodstream and the worlds rivers, betwe...”

“Oh no. Don't smile. You'll kill me. I stop breathing when you smile.”

“I breathe in the soft, saturated exhalations of cedar trees and salmonberry bushes, fireweed and wood fern, marsh hawks and meadow voles, marten and harbor seal and blacktail deer. I breathe in the...”

“Take a deep breath and pause for one minute without doing anything! There did you feel the magic?”

“Just smile and take a deep breath! Feel the sacred vibration of love and be in it! Now spread it by smiling at everyone you come in contact with. Not a fake but a smile filled with joy & love! Just...”

“When you're and only child in a family with an only parent, you look at other, bigger families with envy. Mary Alice had a family with a station wagon, a split-level house, and a pool. But then I l...”

“Gloating is a superficial glowing, floating is an idle flowing, and bloatedness is the paralysis of blowing up; because silent movement results in loud victories.”

“I am floating, I thought, completely without anchor, at the mercy of the wind.”

“Gloating is a superficial glowing, floating is an idle flowing, and bloatedness is the paralysis of blowing up; because silent movement results in loud victories.”