You couldn't have strength without weakness, you couldn't have light without dark, you couldn't have love without loss

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.

Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.

Tiago turned to survey the large, crowded ballroom. "Good job not killing anybody.""That's what Pia said, " Dragos told him. "Night's not over yet.

'Tis what I love determines how I love.

The most distinguished hallmark of the American society is and always has been change.

Ministers should be stars to give light, not clouds to obscure.

When you're older, you'll appreciate the advantages of sleeping alone.

His heart, like mine, was ticking off the time allotted to his small restless body.

It's an incredible thing, how you can feel so taken care of by someone and yet feel, also, like you would die or do anything just for the chance to protect him back.

The truth is that the sole reason we don’t see the world all around us as magic is that we are jaded, too cool for the school of wonder.

I don't think about when it's going to stop and what you do before it stops. You just keep moving.