“Sunsets, like childhood, are viewed with wonder not just because they are beautiful but because they are fleeting.”
“I've come to know that what we want in life is the greatest indication of who we really are.”
“Heroes rarely look the way we draw them in our minds: attractive, imposing figures with rippling muscles and strong chins. More times than not they are humble beings, small and flawed. It is only their spirits that are beautiful and strong.”
“We all arrive on Earth with a round-trip ticket.”
“Forgiveness does not require us to close our eyes but rather to truly open them.”
“Small kindnesses often, unintentionally, produce the biggest payoffs.”
“Some people deal with their problems by talking them to death. In fact, some enjoy the execution so much they resurrect their problems just so they can kill them again.-Nathan Hurst”
“I’ve come to know that what we want in life is the
greatest indication of who we really are.”
“We stone our prophets, then build monuments to them after they're gone.”
“There's no hurt so great that love can't heal it.”
“You know how before you buy a house you hire someone to come check it out and write a homebuyer's report? Someone should do that for husbands. Before you get married, you should have a complete inspection to find out what's broken, if it's fixable, and how much it will cost to repair.”
“I once heard it said that everyone needs love-and if they're denied, they'll find it, or a reasonable substitute somewhere.”
“To the thief, everyone’s a crook. To the liar, everyone’s a fraud. The curse of all sin is the mirror of false perception it traps us in.”
“It seems that the most significant events in our lives happen while we’re worried about something else happening.”
“Our thoughts are not arrows haphazardly shot out into the cosmos. They are boomerangs.”
“Even Mom doesn't understand how being in front of a camera all the time twists and warps you. How one second it makes you feel unbelievably alive and the next publicly strips you down until all that's left is one big question mark.”
“He followed it down, in full flight now, the trees beginning to close him in, malign and baleful shapes that reared like enormous androids provoked at the alien insubstantiality of this flesh colliding among them.”
“Never leave yourself open to regret, Grace. We can only make a decision when we know the choices we are faced with. If we shy away, turn our backs and hide, we will simply never know. And that is when you end up old and wondering and regretting. Live a life of hope. Don’t live a life of regret.”
“I am human. I talk and I listen and I read.”
“Learning how someone else is already doing the thing you want to do, or a version of it, can eliminate fear—every path is easier to follow when you see someone else’s footprints already on it.”
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