About the Author
Richard Torregrossa is a journalist and artist who has freelanced for Cosmopolitan, Self, Yoga Journal, Microsoft's on-line magazine Sidewalk and other national and regional publications. Born in Brooklyn, New York, he now lives in San Diego, California, where he is currently working on a series of illustrated children's books that have tie-ins to their own Web sites.
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Where there is great love there are always miracles.
—Willa Cather
Death Comes for the Archbishop
Much better to do your own work, even if you have to do it imperfectly, then to do other people's work perfectly.
—Bhagavad Gita
The Master doesn't seek fulfillment. Not seeking, not expecting. She is present, and can welcome all things.
—Tao Te Ching
Translated by Stephen Mitchell
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
—Winston Churchill
Works of art are indeed always products of having-been-in-danger, of having-gone-to-the-very end in an experience, to where man can go no further.
—R. M. Rilke
Letters
He who wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
—Edmund Burke
Self-loving is not so vile a sin, my liege, as self-neglecting.
—Shakespeare
Inside every human being is a God in embryo. It has only one desire—it wants to be born.
—Kahlil Gibran
If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own
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