You can't look back - you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future.
I was starting to see that what looks like garbage from one angle might be art from another. Maybe it did take a crisis to get to know yourself; maybe you needed to get whacked hard by life before you understood what you wanted out of it.
Where you come from does matter -- but not nearly as much as where you are headed.
The only person who suffers, when you squirrel alway all that hate, is you.
Writing is grunt work - you need to have self-motivation, perseverance, and faith... talent is the smallest part of it.
Beliefs are the roads we take to our dreams. Believe you can do something-or believe you can't-and you'll be right everytime.
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.
Into the silence rips a sound that makes me let go of Max's hand and cover my ears. It is like the strafe of a bullet, nails on a chalkboard, promises being broken. It's a note I have never heard - this chord of pure pain - and it takes a moment to realize it is coming from me.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
You know what the difference is between a dream and a goal?... A plan.
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.
We all know that a sky with clouds in it is much more interesting than one that doesn’t have any.
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.
Things that look impossible suddenly seem a lot better, once you get God on board.
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.
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.
The wolves knew when it was time to stop looking for what they'd lost, to focus instead on what was yet to come.
Sometimes you can see things happen right in front of your eyes and still jump to the wrong conclusions.
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.
I think grief is like a really ugly couch. It never goes away. You can decorate around it; you can slap a doily on top of it; you can push it to the corner of the room-but eventually, you learn to live with it.
"Everyone still deserves to have their say."
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