To keep impermanence always before your eyes makes everything sacred, because it always could be otherwise.
- Kristi Nelson -
My faith was strong and I knew I wasn't still here on Earth to be mad about what I looked like. I just felt blessed that I was alive.
- These words were spoken by Melissa Dohme, from Florida, who was 20 years old when she was stabbed more than 30 times and left for dead by her ex-boyfriend. Against all the odds she survived. The first time she looked in the mirror she just sobbed. 'It was devastating,' she said. (http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-38302839)