“Is it love, or is it attachment? Do you want to love her, or do you want to control her?”
“To be silent. In hopes of not offending, in hopes of being accepted. But what happened to people who never spoke, never raised their voices? Kept everything inside? Gamache knew what happened. Everything they swallowed, every word, thought, feeling rattled around inside, hollowing the person out. And into that chasm they stuffed their words, their rage.”
“To hate the hate was just more hate; to reject the rejection was just more rejection; to judge the judging, just more judging.”
“It’s such an amazing awakening to realize that nothing in this universe happens TO YOU, 100% happens FOR YOU.”
“What is the secret of your serenity?” a student asked Sophia “Wholehearted cooperation with the inevitable,” she replied.”