It took vulnerability to forge strength, the way true courage required fear.

Dreams shape the kind of human beings we become. Not having a dream gave me a smaller future and made me a smaller person.

It occurred to her that all the bad parts of life, the sad parts, the frightening ones, were meant to be offset by moments and memories like this. She had to be present in it, right here, right now.

So many of the things she had found lately hadn't been precisely lost. But she wasn't found without them.

You're torn between wanting to be closer and wanting to push me away, " he said. "So I vote for closer. I'll always vote for closer.

My Head of House said I lacked certain necessary qualities...like the ability to behave myself.

We are members of one great body, planted by nature…. We must consider that we were born for the good of the whole

Memories can be hard to forget and painful to remember that those who hate us now once loved us.

Take comfort in the knowledge that you are different, even from the different ones.

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line.

I would much prefer that they take me as I am, that way the experience is genuine between the both of us.

Constant dropping wears away stones

If you have faith in God, if you believe that God can use you, if you are willing to take a step of faith here and there, then God can do incredible things through you.

If you don't make mistakes, you don't make anything .

I am not devaluing thoughts. Just do not mix up what we think with what actually is.