"Learn to get in touch with silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from."
- Elizabeth Kbler-Ross

"That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along."
- Lisa Alther

"We are, each of us, our own prisoner. We are locked up in our own story."
- Maxine Kumin