“You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else.”

“Everyone of you has a health that is unique and totally different from everybody else. Completely! Because we… are all like snowflakes.”

“He was comparing you to the butterflies that you both adore and cherish, and he said you were special for the same reasons: you were rare, exotic and entirely you. He said you're beautiful exactly the way are now.”

“You want to have a meaningful life? Everything you do matters. That's the definition of a meaningful life. But everything you do matters. So you're going to have to carry that with you.”

“Unity is a truth. The truth is, there's only ultimately one. All this diversity we see - and there's great diversity and great uniqueness! But underlying it, the essence of all of it is conscious spirit. Conscious spirit is what everything is. Spirit is what everything is. Spirit is what's expressing itself. When you look around you, what you're really seeing is the expressions of ineffable spirit. That's what you're seeing. No matter what you see, no matter what you experience, it's really a manifestation of spirit.”

“You are you. Unique. Marvelous. Beautiful. Quirky. And imperfect.”

“You're a wonderful person, Jamie. You're beautiful, you're kind, you're gentle… you're everything that I'd like to be. If people don't like you, or they think you're strange, then that's their problem.”

“You know, all that really matters is that the people you love are happy and healthy. Everything else is just sprinkles on the sundae.”

“When a man is that special, you know it sooner than you think possible. You recognize it instinctively, and you're certain that no matter what happens, there will never be another one like him.”

“I congratulate you on having such a unique and beautiful problem.”