“This is my favorite part of the day. Good morning, Class Two C, I say. The entire class leaps up and sings out, Good morning, miss! Twenty-three faces are smiling at me. Sometimes they shout it wit...”

“Ive just been transferred to Kanglung, I say. They look at me to see if I am joking, and then they look at each other. There is a long, terrible silence and we all look at the floor. Karma Dorji wi...”

“Time has become a melding of minutes and months and the feeling of seasons. [] Leon says it is the Bhutan Time Warp and I know what he means. Time does not hurl itself forward at breakneck speed he...”

“I need to be alone. After a full day of talking, smiling, listening, showing, nodding, translating, I want to be alone. I want simply to come home, close the door, and sit in silence, gathering up ...”

“This is my favorite part of the day. “Good morning, Class Two C,” I say. The entire class leaps up and sings out, “Good morning, miss!” Twenty-three faces are smiling at me. Sometimes they shout it...”

“I’ve just been transferred to Kanglung,” I say. They look at me to see if I am joking, and then they look at each other. There is a long, terrible silence and we all look at the floor. Karma Dorji ...”

“Life is about accepting the challenges along the way, choosing to keep moving forward, and savoring the journey.”

“I don't run away from a challenge because I am afraid. Instead, I run towards it because the only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your foot”

“What makes you so dare to challenge me, kiddo?It ain't about you, Sir. I just wanna confront my fear.”

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”

“All Earthquakes and Disasters are warnings theres too much corruption in the world ”

“Its only when youre at the bottom of the ladder that you ascend.”

“We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.”

“When the people whom we love the most leave us, we start learning to live with the shadows they have left inside us.”

“The learnin' mind is the livin' mind... an' any sort o' smart is truesome smart, old smart or new, high smart or low.”