If your mental health is sound, then when disturbances come, you will have some distress but quickly recover.

An easy life is rarely meaningful and a meaningful life rarely easy.

Strong-willed heart always makes me feel so touched. It reminds me about some 'fall and rise again' in my life.

In the moments between bullets, those in foxholes regain their vision. They get to count the dead, feel for holes. Pain creeps through a sluice of calm.

I almost wish I had cancer. Then I'd either beat it or die from it. But my disease, even if successfully treated, will never go away. And it might not kill me. But it will hang over me like the blade...

A pilot who signs up to fly through the eye of a storm doesn't complain of the turbulence.

Sometimes, you're the one who strikes it lucky. Sometimes, it's the other poor bastard who's left with the short straw, and you just have to shut up and get on with it.

But after dealing with Roy for a while I just wanted to get through the time I'd signed on for, to prove to myself that I couldn't be beaten by a girly-faced, chicken-boned, racist cat.

In the process of my evolution, I became a victim of domestic war, an emotional casualty for a major portion of my life, entwined, entrapped and emotionally involved, until I learned how to become...

Before the storm, he'd been a man who never met a stranger, never seemed to doubt himself. He could run faster than anyone; there had been joy in his movements, his world was full of possibilities,...

Some mistakes... Just have greater consequences than others. But you don't have to let the result of one mistake be the thing that defines you. You, Clark, have the choice not to let that happen.

He broke me down past the flesh, past the muscle, past the bone, down to my soul and in a loud provocation, he asked, What are you made of? After I gathered the broken bits and pieces of my life...

Until they rip us apart, and even then, I'll fight.

Only those who never stand up, never fall down.

The bitterest hardships, the most daunting trials; none of these are burdens if it means being with you.

I do not wish to avoid the walk. The distance is nothing when one has a motive.

Don't be discouraged by your problems. Let your passion and dreams inspire you to keep moving forward.

The opportunities far outweigh the disappointments.

When life gets rough, don't panic! Just let it be! Life is leading you to still waters!

Seriously. Just because you can't experience everything doesn't mean you shouldn't experience anything. - Nicola Yoon, Everything, Everything

Bad stories can create good people, and I wanted to protect them from those bad stories so they could live with the good person they'd created without ever worrying about what I had to go through to...

Our life is a journey, through winter and night, We look for our way, in a sky without light.

I savor bitterness - it is born of experience. It is the privilege of one who has truly lived. You, too, must learn to prefer it. After all, when all else is gone, you may still have bitterness in...

This was my love, her love - - torn, damaged, broken, ripped apart and put back together. This was our tattered love.

There is grace for survival in any situation.

Whatever your problems may be, they pale in insignificance in the light of eternity. No matter how great your failures, God's grace is greater still. Lift up your heart and face life head-on.

Facing poverty is better than living in poverty and by facing poverty you can overcome it at one point.

Poverty and sickness have this miraculous power of completely changing one's priorities

She hoped that Tin Win would learn what she had learned over the years: that there are wounds time does not heal, though it can reduce them to a manageable size.

Something soft turn to stone within her. She had no choice. She had to fight. She had to win. She would learn. And then she'd free them.Or join them.