Love makes life a little brighter

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.

You seem to think you have a choice, " Cam said. "But you have it backwards. Love chooses you. The shadow moves as the sun commands.

Nothing should be so greatly feared as empty fame.

When you only know your faults and failures, you allow yourself and others to downgrade your dreams and belittle your wants.

If God rewards the faithful with earthly rewards, then what leverage does the devil have?

The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are wild beasts, and would devour one another but for this protection.

I don't look at the work of my contemporaries very much; I tend to look at pictures by dead artists. It's much easier to get near their paintings.

Surrealism to me is reality. Psychedelic vision is reality to me and always was.

Don't forget how you got here. Don't Forget.

We want to encourage people. You are not just another kid in the youth group or the lady on the third row. God has a purpose for every life.

The Rosary is a school for learning true Christian perfection.