“What greater thing is there for two human souls, than to feel that they are joined for life--to strengthen each other in all labor, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in...”

“It is very hard to say the exact truth, even about your own immediate feelings much harder than to say something fine about them which is not the exact truth.”

“A woman may get to love by degreesthe best fire does not flare up the soonest.”

“There is one order of beauty which seems made to turn heads. It is a beauty like that of kittens, or very small downy ducks making gentle rippling noises with their soft bills, or babies just begin...”

“Yes! Thank God; human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beautyit flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it... There are few prophets in the wo...”

“A pretty building I'm making, without either bricks or timber. I'm up i' the garret a'ready, and haven't so much as dug the foundation.”

“One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.”

“Everybody has a home team: Its the people you call when you get a flat tire or when something terrible happens. Its the people who, near or far, know everything thats wrong with you and love you an...”

“The more you condemn yourself for thinking or feeling a certain way, the more you feel stuck within your own body and mind.. What if you went the other way and embraced it so totally that it was as...”

“Time stretches and calms, but still we reach, for we belonged then. We want to know. Sometimes that knowledge is painful, or inconvenient, or even damning. But it is essential. It exposes us for wh...”

“Our parents tell us the story of our beginning and they have total control over it--they know they've changed it, and we know they've changed it, but we just let them. They massage the details to r...”

“We cannot escape our origins, however hard we try, those origins which contain the key -could we but find it- to all we later become”