Memories are links in a golden chain that bind us until we meet again.
It makes my heart so heavy. Young men shouldn't have to die, and their parents shouldn't have to go through the rest of their lives making everything seem right by saying, 'At least my boy was brave.'...
If her soul were a room, it was as if a light were now shinning in a corner that had been dark.
I know this isn't easy for anyone - nothing worth doing is every easy Brenda to Maisie Dobbs
As friends they knew each other’s history, knew the twists and turns that had brought them to this place in the world. And they understood each other’s fears and frailties; nothing had to be explained...
You should allow yourself to indulge in this remembrance. When you face the past, all you will see is that which has gone before. So I have some advice: Let this be your turning point. Have done with...
Thus he always wrote using a pencil with a long, sharp but soft lead, so he couldn't here his words as they formed on the page.
My child, when a mountain appears on the journey, we try to go to the left, then to the right; we try to find the easy way to navigate our way back to the easier path. He paused. But the mountain is t...
My child, when a mountain appears on the journey, we try to go to the left, then to the right. We try to find the easy way to navigate our way back to the easier path.…. But the mountain is there to b...
May I not sit in judgment. May I be open to hearing and accepting the truth of what I am told. May my decisions be for the good of all concerned. May my work bring peace. . . .
I see how the gaping abyss between those who have much and those who have nothing can cause dangerous fractures in society. I see how power corrupts, how the people are manipulated and kept in their p...
Extremes live within us all. The joy of association resides alongside the anticipation of loss. What is given will be taken, what we have is often only of value to us when it is gone. He paused, his f...
Even if the whole world was throwing rocks at you, if you had your mother at your back, you’d be okay. Some deep-rooted part of you would know you were loved. That you deserved to be loved. —Jojo Moye...
Coincidence is a messenger sent by the truth. [Dr. Maurice Blanche]
But you just know when someone's there, don't you? You can feel them in the house, as if--oh, I don't know, I'm an old woman rambling--but it's as if your heart knows that their heart is beating somew...
Just because you know right from wrong, it doesn't mean you stay away from the wrong part.
Broken buildings like jagged teeth in the mouth of a mad dog...
The power of the question was in the question itself? He’d taught her that one must let a question linger in the mind as one might savor wine on the tongue, and he’d cautioned that a rush to answer co...
Wolfgang von Goethe:A man can stand anything, except a succession of ordinary days.
Those of us who have reached our more mature years know the value of a nap, Maisie, and we can indulge ourselves without the comfort of pillow or bed.