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Sometimes our cruelest acts come not from meaning to do wrong but from not trying hard enough not to.

People are looking for inspiration, and my books are sometimes the vehicles of what people are looking for.

Did you know that rats can't vomit?" "Okay, enough. No more rat trivia.

If you remember the why, the how will work itself out.

The first casualty of hitting rock bottom is vanity.

We all arrive on Earth with a round-trip ticket.

We are chained to that which we do not forgive

The first step of a journey is always the longest.

As long as you remember the whys, the hows will take care of themselves.

I hope you can someday forgive me.'
'I forgive you now.

It was the first time that I had ever been romantically kissed. It was even better than the chocolate cake.

I would say that I was without faith, but no one is truly faithless; they just have faith in the wrong things: fear and defeat.

Taylor, McKenna, Abigail, and Taylor simultaneously crouched over in pain.

If you take away everything a man lives for, then what does he live for?

To forgive is to unlock the cage of another's folly to set ourselves free.

Life is not a sprint. It was never meant to be. It is just one step of faith after another.

Broken vows are like broken mirrors. They leave those who held to them bleeding and staring at fractured images of themselves. (pg. 161)

What a culture we live in, we are swimming in an ocean of information, and drowning in ignorance.

My grandfather, a devout Christian, had the gift of healing.

Regret is a useless emotion.

The concept of spiritual healing was something I was raised with.

Only those who never step, never stumble.

So much of young adult literature has turned dark, almost pathological. It's almost as if there is a race to see who can be the most dysfunctional.

Suffering ceases to be suffering when we form a clear picture of it.

If love is our reason we may veer off course sometimes, but we'll never be lost.

I have learned a great truth of life. We do not succeed in spite of our challenges and
difficulties, but rather, precisely because of them.

There isn't time for regret. There never is.

Forgiveness does not require us to close our eyes but rather to truly open them.

The sound of a kiss is not as strong as that of a cannon, but its echo endures much longer.

There are two kinds of suffering in this life. That which pursues us and that which we doggedly pursue.

It is that to which we cling that drags us to the bottom of the abyss. There is real power at having nothing to lose.

No one marries expecting it to fail. And even when it's good, who knows how long it's going to last?

Usually life's greatest gifts come wrapped in adversity.

Everyone can open a book not everyone can appreciate the beauty of the writing.

It has been said that sometimes the greatest hope in our lives is just a second chance to do what we should have done right in the first place.

Sometimes we can only find ourselves by first losing ourselves.

We cannot enslave others without enslaving a part of ourselves.

On the calendar, all days look the same, but they do not carry the same weight.

There's no problem so big that whining won't make it worse.

Sunsets, like childhood, are viewed with wonder not just because they are beautiful but because they are fleeting.

Roses can grow in slums just as weeds can grow around mansions.

Such fickle days of love when pain and ecstasy share the same hour

The kids who speak well, are articulate and intelligent, are all readers.

The shackles of belief, when reinforced by fear, are difficult to break free from and rarely done.

Nowhere is our vision more distorted than when we turn it on ourselves.

The idea of being a novelist is really romantic, but it's kind of the same as being president of the United States - it's not gonna happen.

Bad memories can attach themselves like barnacles to the hulls of our lives. And, like barnacles, they have a disproportionately large amount of drag.

We don't appreciate the things that come easy to us as much as we do the things we have to work for. I think that's true for love as well.

In the end, we all lose it. Remember that. In the end, we own nothing.

I don't think it is as much a human foible as it is a human curse that we cannot understand the beauty of a thing until it is gone.

So often the pain of our life is no more than a reminder to take our hand off the stove.

Without dreams life is a desert

Feelings can be like wild animals-we underrate how fierce they are until we've opened their cage

A man's worth isn't measured by a bank register or diploma ... It's about integrity

In your hurry to keep Christmas, you have forgotten Christmas. The truest gift of Christmas is the gift of self.

Chocolate is God's apology for brocolli

Knowing your self-worth isn't something others can validate. You either believe it or you don't.

Magna est veritas, et praevalebit: truth is mighty, and will prevail

Home is where they don't want to kill you, Jack said.

Simply stated, earth is a school-a divine educational process custom-fit to each of us.

Dwelling on him would make him a bigger part of my life than I want him to be.

Could it be that to truly love a thing is not to desire it, but to desire happiness for it?

Hard things don't always make life harder. It takes something hard to sharpen steel.

Sometimes our arms are so full with the burdens we carry that it hinders our view of the load those around us are staggering beneath.

All that's required for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing.

We all swim deep in the river of our ancestry.

To choose the path is to choose the destination, but sometimes it seems that the path is under our feet even before we know we're walking.

There have been seasons of my life when rejection rained down. And then there have been typhoons. Kimberly Rossi's Diary

From our first babblings to our last word,
we make but one statement, and that is our life.

I'm glad I have you for my boyfriend." "Me too," I said. "Sometimes I have to pinch myself." She pinched my arm and smiled. "You're so cute.

One need not fight every battle, or die in the struggle, to be a hero.

Is that it?" Jack asked. "No. That is the Xing zheng yuan Hui an Xun fang Shu." "I was just going to say that," Tessa said.

The well from which we receive grace is only filled by sharing it with others. --- Charles James's Diary

Often times, the greatest peace comes of surrender.

We are all in motion, always. Those who are not climbing towards something are descending toward nothing.

Everybody needs love. Everybody. Those who don't believe that frighten me a little.

My mom used to say that faith and fear can't exist simultaneously in the mind any more than light and dark can exist simultaneously in the same room.

There can be no joy without gratitude.

Sometimes the most whole people are those who come from the most broken circumstances.

Elgen can twist the truth all they want, but they can't change

The measure of life is revealed in the quality of our relationships: with God, our families, our fellow men. - A Perfect Day by Richard Paul Evans

Nothing is more excruciating than waiting for the jury's verdict. Except, perhaps, hearing the jury's verdict.

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My mother always said that if you do the right thing, the universe comes to your aid,

Jade Dragon will go.

I think the secret to a hoppy life is a selective memory. Remember what you are most grateful for and quickly forget what your not.

It has been a mistake living my life in the past. One cannot ride a horse backwards and still hold its reins.

Life is not yours to take.

The only way to remove pain from death is to remove love from life.

It's easy to hate the game when your losing.

I love when I can reboot people when they are being mean to others ...

There are dreams that are meant to be shared and dreams to be kept hidden in our hearts. It's sometimes difficult to know which is which.

Even the most horribl e of nightmares is laced with the promise of dawn.

Take it out on whoever is close. Even people we love. Taylor's afraid for Michael and so she's upset. And since he isn't here, she took it out on you.

I absolutely love playing the game 'Risk.'

Joy isn't the natural response to blessings - joy is what comes from acknowledging them.

Sometimes life is like that ... Things that seem bad at the time are really blessings.

Usually the most interesting stories are written not on paper but hearts.

They say love is blind, but it's not. Infatuation is blind. Emotional neediness is blind. Love sees the fault - it just sees beyond it as well.

People aren't wired to be alone. Even in the stressful population of prison, solitary confinement is still considered a cruel punishment.