"Faultless in spite of all her faults...." - Quote by Jane Austen

“Pity is for this life, pity is the worm inside the meat, pity is the meat, pity is the shaking pencil, pity is the shaking voice-- not enough money, not enough love--pity for all of us--it is our grace, walking down the ramp or on the moving sidewalk, sitting in a chair, reading the paper, pity, turning a leaf to the light, arranging a thorn.”

“Mr. Knightley, if I have not spoken, it is because I am afraid I will awaken myself from this dream.”

“No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.”

“Love your life, poor as it is.”

“With life as short as a half-taken breath, don't plant anything but love.”

“My waking thoughts are all of thee. Your portrait and the remembrance of last night's delirium have robbed my senses of repose. Sweet and incomparable Josephine, what an extraordinary influence you have over my heart. Are you vexed? Do I see you sad? Are you ill at ease? My soul is broken with grief, and there is no rest for your lover.”

“When I was young, I believed that life might unfold in an orderly way, according to my hopes and expectations. But now I understand that the Way winds like a river, always changing, ever onward.. My journeys revealed that the Way itself creates the warrior; that every path leads to peace, every choice to wisdom. And that life has always been, and will always be, arising in Mystery.”

“One is given strength to bear what happens to one, but not the 100 and 1 different things that might happen.”

“If you can do something about a situation, why worry? And if you can't do something about a situation, why worry?”