Aberjhani Quotes

The lotus comes from the murkiest water but grows into the purest thing.

The wound is the place where the light enters you.

Sometimes when really terrible things happen, something beautiful emerges out of it.

Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive. The next thing you know something fine will happen to her, something marvelous, and then she will turn around and smile.

Take these broken wings and learn to fly.

Change doesn't have to be hard, and healing doesn't have to hurt. Surely by now you know that every thing happens for a reason! There is something better awaiting you on the other side of this.

You can grow flowers from where dirt use to be.

How do you plan a rebirth? I'm not sure you do. You just stand in the darkness until you can't endure it any long, and then you move forward until you're standing in the light.

A bridge of silver wings stretches from the dead ashes of an unforgiving nightmare to the jeweled vision of a life started anew.

Words are everything. Words give wings even to those who have been stamped upon, broken beyond all hope of repair.

I think it's good for people to see the positive beauty that can flower from the deepest grieving.

This rose of pearl-coated infinity transforms the diseased slums of a broken heart into a palace made of psalms and gold.

Growth is the surviving influence in all our lives. The tree will send up its trunk in thick profusion from land burned black by atom bombs. Children will grow from poverty and filth and oppression and develop honor, integrity, contribute to all mankind.

Sorrows are gardeners: they plant flowers along waste places, and teach vines to cover barren heaps.

Things falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing.

That's how we find our way outward and onward. By holding onto beauty hardest. By cradling it like the cure that it is. By making it realer than anything ever was. The rest is just monsters and ghosts.

However confused the scene of our life appears, however torn we may be who now do face that scene, it can be faced, and we can go on to be whole.

If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear.

Flowers grow out of dark moments.

Suffering is traumatic and awful and we get angry and we shake our fists at the heavens and we vent and rage and weep. But in the process we discover a new tomorrow, one we never would have imagined otherwise.

Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.

There is hope and a kind of beauty in there somewhere, if you look for it.

You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves. Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life.

I shine in tears like the sun in April.

9/11 occurs, and you're going to rebuild, and after awhile, the memory will be there, but there will be something new there, and different, and functioning, and electric.