Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.
It really doesn't matter if the person who hurt you deserves to be forgiven. Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself. You have things to do and you want to move on.
I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people who are convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference after another.
Books...are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.
Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.
Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.