He could not know that thoughts are not things you can give or not give. Thoughts are thrust upon you. You can only hope that thoughts that you don’t want will tire of you at some point and flutter away.

There is just the simple truth that you must forgive yourself for only being able to make your own choices, and no one else’s.

Shut your eyes to the world of pain, and you also shut your eyes to the world of delight.

He’s more than just the baby she found all those years ago. He’s the proof that out of a great pile of ashes you can still find something that the fire didn’t take.

Love is not blind – it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

It should always make us happy to say that loving someone and being loved by someone is worth whatever price paid.

Everything beautiful has a story it wants to tell’” she said reading aloud the store’s tagline at the top of the form... “I love that.

It’s funny how just having an unobstructed view of the possible future can make you think you’re capable of achieving anything.

Everyone has a past, and everyone’s past matters.

You want to fix what hurts the moment it starts hurting, but this time you’re going to have to embrace the slowness of healing. You’ll never be able to live with this part of your story until you realize you must make peace with what happened to you and your part in it. And that takes time.