Sometimes memory tricks you. Sometimes beauty is best when it's distant.

Remember that at any given moment there are a thousand things you can love.

Life tells you to take the elevator, but love tells you to take the stairs.

Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen.

The older I get, the more I lose my ability to breathe.

A photograph it a souvenir of a memory. It is not a moment. It is the looking at the photograph that becomes the moment. Your own moment.

The words that matter always stay.

motif, n. You don’t love me as much as I love you. You don’t love me as much as I love you. You don’t love me as much as I love you.

It was a mistake," you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you.

You have to believe there are kisses and laughs and risks worth taking.

Things that matter are not easy. Feelings of happiness are easy. Happiness is not. Flirting is easy. Love is not. Saying you’re friends is easy. Being friends is not.

I understand (finally) that God does not REACT to prayers or petitions. He has ACTED. It is already done.

Perhaps life is like an hour glass, with dear ones the sand that slips from the upper glass--the earth--into the second--eternity.

The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.

I may have one need that you could fulfill if you'd like..." he said.

Sometimes, I need to be high off the ground to keep grounded.

If a preacher tells you how God says you are, I don't see how you can say that's bad preaching.

Content thyself to be obscurely good.

Hate is a place where a man who can’t stand sadness goes.

It's a scientific fact that gratitude reciprocates.

It's important for you to understand that stock and bonds go up-and they go down. You need to be comfortable with that fact.