I love it when there's nothing left to see but tiny spots of what's still light. Stories piercing the night.

In life, some of the things we are afraid of are the same things that are used to test our ability to stand trials.

We can't always control what happens in our lives - things will go well, things will go poorly - but what we can control is our response to those events.

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

You're the one who has to live with your choice. Everyone else will get over it, move on, no matter what you decide. But you never will.

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.

The harder you slam a ball into the ground, the higher it bounces back up... A divorce, a breakup, losing a job, or just feeling seriously down can ground you, rough you up a bit, leave calluses on...

To lose everything is not the worst that can happen. It's starting again, from nothing, with nothing.

Some of the best music was composed by Beethoven, but he was deaf, some of the best poetry of nature was written by Milton, but he was deaf. The possible is always inside the impossible...

We all go through struggles in life, but struggling with the same thing for the rest of your life, is definitely a choice you don't have to choose. Your true potential is far greater than your...

The greatest virtue is endurance.

There is hope in the challenge.

Life can be awful. Life can be ugly. And still there are those who smile at the darkness, anticipating the beauty of an eventual sunrise.

Only adversity provides the opportunity for greatness.

Stories weren't just make believe, all Dr. Seuss and Mother Goose. I saw a circle: first life, then death. Spring, summer, fall, winter. Blue sky and storms and quilts of cold clouds occupy the same...

When you look down the length of your chain and see it is made mostly of weak links it is time to pull out the bolt cutters.

I am more than less, but less than worthy. Worthy to be heard, but heard in silence.

We have the ability to survive anything.

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...

Mia stood between the bed and the broken window, holding an active plasma blade at waist - height in front of her. A thick coat of blood stained the plasma nearly from hilt to tip, hissing as it...

Masume works hard and he's very thoughtful. He likes hardships, so he's very useful.

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.

We threw ourselves at that wild river every day and most days it tossed us all harmlessly skyward like well-loved children. After a while that does something to you.

You always have it. It's always there.

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

Darkness humbles and demolishes the people