Just because you had every right to feel sorry for yourself didn't mean you ever took the opportunity to do so.

Everytime I look at a zebra, I can't figure out whether it's black with white stripes or white with black stripes, and that frustrates me.

Love is not a because, it's a no matter what.

The human capacity for burden is like bamboo- far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance.

There are two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations.

There's always going to be bad stuff out there. But here's the amazing thing -- light trumps darkness, every time. You stick a candle into the dark, but you can't stick the dark into the light.

You can't look back - you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future.

Until this moment, I had not realized that someone could break your heart twice, along the very same fault lines.

The wolves knew when it was time to stop looking for what they'd lost, to focus instead on what was yet to come.

If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even when the other half of the equation is gone?

‎Pick ten strangers and stick them in a room, and ask them which of us they feel sorrier for - you or me - and we all know who they'll choose.

Women aren't very bright, " Rip says. "Studies have been done.

Keep out of the past. It is haunted.

God's commands are designed to guide you to life's very best.

Fear will try to keep you from taking that first step. Don't give in to fear, do it afraid.

There are plenty to follow our Lord half-way, but not the other half. They will give up possessions, friends and honors, but it touches them to closely to disown themselves.

Often while traveling with a camera we arrive just as the sun slips over the horizon of a moment, too late to expose film, only time enough to expose our hearts.

It gets boring to me when people talk about clothing brands or what boat they’re going to buy next summer.

The love of God is not something vague or generic; the love of God has a name and a face: Jesus Christ.

For me exotic means beaches, palm trees and sand and frolicking in the ocean

I did not want to be anything, and naturally I did not want to turn myself into a mere profession: all I ever wanted was to be myself.