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Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the liv...more

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Maybe magic and love, together, can achieve what magic alone cannot.

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No matter how close we are to another person, few human relationships are as free from strife, disagreement, and frustration as is the relationship yo...more

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It's a world of sorrow, Oddie, because we make it so.

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When I woke up and the dark wasn't gone yet, and the dark seemed so big, then she sang soft and made the dark small again."That is the best of all thi...more

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You are reformed, you may be a better man, but you are not a different man. How can you convince yourself of such a thing when you are so conversant w...more

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All she wanted was love with respect, respect was so important to her, and I could give her that.

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Living in a monastery, even as a guest rather than a monk, you have more opportunities than you might have elsewhere to see the world as it is, instea...more

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...it will be a world made not bright but brighter, not clean but cleaner.

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What has been is no more. Change has come.

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If emotions were universal, then in one sense he was not alone, never had been alone, and never could be alone....No pain or happiness was unique. All...more

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Even if there are moments during the day when all seems normal and when every action of your own and of those around you seems to be unremarkable, the...more

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What really holds their marriage together are mutual respect of an awesome depth, a shared sense of humor, faith that they were brought together by a ...more

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That stormy day in the desert, however, much changed for me. We must have our goals, our dreams and we must strive for them. We are not gods, however;...more

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A broken thing can't fix itself.