"Wellness is not the absence of pain ..... But the absence of limitation"

“Some people think technology has the answers.”

“You learn nothing form your successes except to think too much of yourself. It is from failure that all growth comes, provided you can recognize it, admit it, learn from it, rise above it, and then try again.”

“I guess you could write a good song if your heart hadn't been broken, but I don't know of anyone whose heart hasn't been broken.”

“I had a friend who was a clown. When he died, all his friends went to the funeral in one car.”

“An open ear is the only believable sign of an open heart.”

Source : "The New Freedom of Forgiveness". Book by David W Augsburger, March 13, 2000.

“The moment you become aware of the silence, you also have become silent.”

“I dream of a grave, deep and narrow, where we could clasp each other in our arms as with clamps, and I would hide my face in you and you would hide your face in me, and nobody would ever see us any more”

“Why, he wondered, should he remember her suddenly, on such a day, watching the rain falling on the apple trees?”