My sister is a mess. I love her to death, but she is a mess.

Different denotes neither bad nor good, but it certainly means not the same.

Welcome the present moment as if you had invited it. It is all we ever have so we might as well work with it rather than struggling against it. We might as well make it our friend and teacher rather...

Did you know that true love asks for nothing? Her Acceptance is the way we pay.

You'd better make friends with Time, because sooner or later it will catch up with you.

You have two choices in life: Live the life you want or live the life of acceptance.

It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.

If our goal is to be tolerant of people who are different than we are, Chase, then we really are aiming quite low. Traffic jams are to be tolerated. People are to be celebrated.

Safe Deposit...

At that moment I remembered something Cal had told me: that there is beauty in darkness in everything. Sorrow in joy, life and death, thorns on the rose. I knew then that I could not escape pain and...

Allow yourself to think that the possibility of failure is a necessary part of parenting well... . Avoiding the possibility of failure means avoiding the possibility of being an extraordinary parent -...

I'm not mad. I already told you that. We all have mistakes in our past... and our future. It's a fact of life.

What's happened has happened. You can't change the past. All you can do is work on making a brighter future.

Watering a dead flower will not bring it back to life.

There's the parent you want and the parent you have.

Our society shuns people for being a bright light in the world. Sometimes if you are too futuristic people do not like how revolutionary you are

Study yourself. Become your own mentor and best friend. When you are suffering stay at the bottom until you find out who you are. Let the storms come and pass. How you walk through the fire says a lot...

Trying to change someone to suit your desires is a setup for disappointment.

It is a healthy approach not to expect persons to turn out precisely how you would have wished.

I often think of life as a great darkened room with a mammoth - sized tapestry fastened to a stone wall. I believe true peace can be achieved not in viewing the whole tapestry, but in accepting...

I love everything about you Kacey, because the best thing in life is finding someone who knows your flaws, mistakes, difficulties, and still think you are bad - ass and loves you.

When you really love someone, you see all their mess and their brokenness and you love them anyway. In fact, seeing all of that sort of makes you love them more.

you are right where you should be / now act like it

It's fine, I repeated. And whatever. It was fine. It had to be.

So you drive as far as you can, even when you can clearly read the sign. You want to think you are exempt, that it doesn't apply to you. But it does. Life is still a dead end. And we still have a hard...

Nobody is perfect. Everyone who has ever loved someone has had to overlook something.

You can't decide how someone will go about loving you.

Miriam came to consider Eliza a gosling born into a family of ducks, loved and accepted, but always and forever a goose.

You know the truth. Evie's never coming back. And the sooner you make your peace with that, the sooner you can start to heal.

The thing you can count on in life is that Tennessee will always be scorching hot in August.