“I am a part of all that I have met.”

“People help you, or you help them, and when we offer or receive help, we take in each other. And then we are saved”

“If you could only sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to the people you may never even dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person.”

“Sorrow comes in great waves...but it rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us it leaves us on the spot and we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.”

“When you stand and share your story in an empowering way, your story will heal you and your story will heal somebody else.”

“Whether you’ve seen angels floating around your bedroom or just found a ray of hope at a lonely moment, choosing to believe that something unseen is caring for you can be a life-shifting exercise.”

“Aloneness is an opportunity, a state brimming with potentiality, with resources for renewed life.”

“Only through our connectedness to others can we really know and enhance the self. And only through working on the self can we begin to enhance our connectedness to others.”

“The possibility for rich relationships exists all around you—you simply have to open your eyes, open your mouth and most importantly, open your heart.”

“If your life is cloudy and you're far, far off course, you may have to go on faith for a while, but eventually you'll learn that every time you trust your internal navigation system, you end up closer to your right life.”

“But we can’t live in the light all of the time. You have to take whatever light you can hold into the dark with you.”

“To have darkness behind me, in front of me a / bright sky, flickering lights on the water, and to feel / On the stony face the southern sun.”

“Life has its pains and evils—its bitter disappointments; but like a good novel and in healthful length of days, there is infinite joy in seeing the World, the most interesting of continued stories, unfold...”

“The life I touch for good or ill will touch another life, and that in turn another, until who knows where the trembling stops or in what far place my touch will be felt.”

“In the space of aloneness—and perhaps only there—a woman is free to admit and act on her own desires. It is where we have the opportunity to discover that we are not a half but a sovereign whole.”

“The chance to love and be loved exists no matter where you are.”

“If love is universal, no one can be left out.”

“Solitude is the soul's holiday, an opportunity to stop doing for others and to surprise and delight ourselves instead.”

“It is only alone, truly alone that one bursts apart, springs forth.”

“Alone time is when I distance myself from the voices of the world so I can hear my own.”