"I thought about the relentless thought-processing, soul-devouring machine that is my brain, and wondered how on earth I was ever going to master it. Then I remembered that line from Jaws and couldn't help smiling: 'We're gonna need a bigger boat."
"I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises."
"The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than staying was leaving."
"This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something."
"Religion is for those who don't want to go to hell, and spirituality is for those who have already been there."
"But I was always coming here. I though about one of my favorite Sufi poems, which says that God long ago drew a circle in the sand exactly around the spot where you are standing right now. I was never not coming here. This was never not going to happen."