It is worth remembering that the time of greatest gain in terms of wisdom and inner strength is often that of greatest difficulty.
I've tried and I can't. The thought of it twists me in a knot.
Sometimes you have to wander around until you find where you really belong. And sometimes it's right where you started.
Sometimes a person needs to hear you forgive them so they can start to forgive themselves.
I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.
I want to try with someone who loves me enough to try with me. I want to grow old looking at the same face every morning. I want to grow old looking at the same face every night at the dinner table. I want to be one of those old couples you see still holding hands and laughing after fifty years of marriage. That's what I want. I want to be someone's forever.
Rescue Me' is the first book in a three-book series. Although, like all my series, the books are purposely written so that readers do not have to read them in order.
It is noble to pity a man who is cruel because he is weak, but it is idiotic and dangerous to allow him to have power.
We were wise indeed, could we discern truly the signs of our own time; and by knowledge of its wants and advantages, wisely adjust our own position in it. Let us, instead of gazing idly into the obscure distance, look calmly around us, for a little, on the perplexed scene where we stand. Perhaps, on a more serious inspection, something of its perplexity will disappear, some of its distinctive characters and deeper tendencies more clearly reveal themselves; whereby our own relations to it, our own true aims and endeavors in it, may also become clearer.
People always say, 'A good man is hard to find. ' You've never heard that about women, have you?
I send out thoughts of love and peace and healing to the whole universe: to all trees and plants and growing things, to all beasts and birds and fishes, and to every man, woman and child on earth, without any distinction.