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"I now understand that writing fiction was a seed planted in my soul, though I would not be ready to grow that seed for a long time."
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"I hope that in this year to come, YOU make mistakes. Because if YOU are making mistakes, then YOU are making NEW things, trying NEW things, learning, living, pushing YOURself, changing YOURself, changing YOUR world. YOU're doing things YOU've never done before, n MORE importantly, YOU're doing something."

"Every morning, introduce one positive thought into your mind. Be persistent with it until it becomes your habit. It will change your life."

"Appreciate every little improvement. Forget to criticize every failure as long as you are learning from them."

"Accept losing but never give up the hope of winning"

"Adversity could be an advantage in the future. To be a success, take the advantage of adversity whenever possible."

"If you see only problems, then the doors of opportunities will close. If you see only opportunities, then problems will fly away."
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"You forgive what you can, when you can. That's all you can do.To forgive does not mean overlooking the offense and pretending it never happened. Forgiveness means releasing our rage and our need to retaliate, no longer dwelling on the offense, the offender, and the suffering, and rising to a higher love. It is an act of letting go so that we ourselves can go on."

"August: You know, somethings don't matter that much...like the color of a house...But lifting a person's heart--now that matters. The whole problem with people--'Lily: They don't know what matters and what doesn't...August:...They know what matters, but they don't choose it...The hardest thing on earth is to choose what matters."

"This surprised me because it made me realize that what I sought was not outside myself. It was within me, already there, waiting. Awakening was really the act of remembering myself, remembering this deep Feminine Source."

"I said, 'Where's all that delivering God's supposed to do?'He snorted. 'You're right, the only deliverance is the one we get for ourselves. The Lord doesn't have any hands and feet but ours.''That doesn't say much for the Lord.''It doesn't say much for us, either."

"There would be no grand absolution, only forgiveness meter out in these precious sips. I would well up from Hugh's heart in spoonfuls, and he would feed it to me. And it would be enough."

"I was wishing I had a story like that one to live inside me with so much loudness you could pick it up on a stethoscope."

"I worried so much about how I looked and whether I was doing things right, I felt half the time I was impersonating a girl instead of really being one."

"Don't be telling me--can't be done. That's some god damney white talk, that's what that is."

"Nobody around here had ever seen a lady beekeeper till her. She liked to tell everybody that women made the best beekeepers, 'cause they have a special ability built into them to love creatures that sting. It comes from years of loving children and husbands."
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