Forgiving isn't something you do for someone else. It's something you do for yourself. It's saying, 'You're not important enough to have a stranglehold on me.' It's saying, 'You don't get to trap me in the past. I am worthy of a future.
Writing is grunt work - you need to have self-motivation, perseverance, and faith... talent is the smallest part of it.
If we don't change the direction we are headed, we will end up where we are going.
The only person who suffers, when you squirrel alway all that hate, is you.
Where you come from does matter -- but not nearly as much as where you are headed.
The more you get past pain, the more it goes from coal to diamond.
It takes two people to make a lie work: the person who tells it, and the one who believes it.
The Lord turned water into wine. All I'm suggesting is a trip to the grocery store.
You can tell yourself that you would be willing to lose everything you have in order to get something you want. But it's a catch-22: all of those things you're willing to lose are what make you recognizable. Lose them, and you've lost yourself.
I have loved before, but it didn’t feel like this. I have kissed before, but it didn’t burn me alive. Maybe it lasts a minute, and maybe it’s an hour. All I know is that kiss, and how soft her skin is when it brushes against mine, and that, even if I did not know it until now, I have been waiting for this person forever.
Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.
When you are attracted to people, it's because of the details. Their kindness. Their eyes. The fact that they can get you to laugh when you need it the most.
Someone real," I hear myself saying. "Someone who never has to pretend, and who I never have to pretend around. Someone who's smart, but knows how to laugh at himself. Someone who would listen to a symphony and start to cry, because he understands music can be too big for words. Someone who knows me better than I know myself. Someone I want to talk to first thing in the morning and last thing at night. Someone I feel like I've known my whole life, even if I haven't.
You know what the difference is between a dream and a goal?... A plan.
We all know that a sky with clouds in it is much more interesting than one that doesn’t have any.
Like a missing tooth, sometimes an absence is more noticeable than a presence.
maybe there is more to a person than a body and a mind. maybe something else figures into the mix— not a soul, exactly, but a spirit that hints you might one day be greater, stronger than you are now. a promise; a potential.
My mother... she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her.
Everyone has a story; everyone hides his past as a means of self-preservation. Some just do it better, and more thoroughly, than others.
true love is felonious… You take someone’s breath away… You rob them of the ability to utter a single word… You steal a heart.
I think once you sign on to be a mother, that's the only shift they offer.
The only difference between a wish and a prayer is that you're at the mercy of the universe for the first, and you've got some help with the second.
It seems to me that no matter what religion you subscribe to, acts of kindness are the stepping-stones to making the world a better place--because we become better people in it.
People always say that, when you love someone, nothing in the world matters. But that's not true, is it? You know, and I know, that when you love someone, everything in the world matters a little bit more.
She's not classically beautiful, but somehow that only makes her more interesting.
"Everyone still deserves to have their say."
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