Change of Heart

by Jodi Picoult

you’re different, sometimes you don’t see the millions of people who accept you for what you are. All you notice is the one person who doesn’t.

That the sum of a man’s life was not where he wound up but in the details that brought him there. That we made mistakes.

I closed my eyes, sick of the riddles, and to my surprise all I could see were dandelions—as if they had been painted on the fields of my imagination, a hundred thousand suns. And I remembered something else that makes us human: faith, the only weapon in our arsenal to battle doubt.

order to forgive, you have to remember how you were hurt in the first place. And that in order to forget, you had to accept your role in what had happened.

“I know God will not give me anything I can’t handle. I just wish He didn’t trust me so much.” —MOTHER TERESA

If you bring forth what is within you, what is within you will save you. If you don’t bring forth what is within you, what is within you will destroy you.

“One of the proofs of the immortality of the soul is that myriads have believed it. They also believed the world was flat.” —MARK TWAIN, NOTEBOOK

“This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.” —HIS HOLINESS THE 14TH DALAI LAMA

“Religion often gets in the way of God.” —BONO, AT THE NATIONAL PRAYER BREAKFAST, FEBRUARY 2, 2006

“God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown.” —FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE, THE GAY SCIENCE

“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” —ALBERT EINSTEIN