582 quotes found
“there are words inside me that dont want to hide anymore.Perfect or not, they dont want to be safe for much longer.They want to be free.”
“Meaning is not what happens, but what you do with what happens.”
“Memories, made to last forever<3”
“I told myself that some families we get without asking, while others we choose. And I chose those two. I think thats what youd call a silver lining.”
“I got to eavesdrop at a window. As Clay said, I did have another option. I could wait in the car and let them fill me in later. So, eavesdropping it was.”
“Part of me shall dwell in my daughter to call upon in times of need of course.”
“Family tragedies had a way of smashing everything apart and then gluing it all back together. The problem was no one ever knew how long the glue would hold.”
“In any East Asian culture, you will find that women have a very tangible power within the household. This is often rejcted by non-Asian feminists who argue that it is not real power, but.. Japanese...”
“I thought about having a proper room,breathing life into it, and nobody minding.”
“Memories are fragile”
“...my ability to trust had been shattered into splinters, its fragmented shards slicing through every darkened recess of my mind, his absolution won my over all the more.”
“The journey to faith is the most marvelous and sobering of all journeys, for the transformation of ones heart transforms the questions one asks, the values one holds, the world one perceives, and t...”
“Faith is about what we know, not what we feel. Yet, what we know will influence and direct what we feel. A strong knowledge of God will yield feelings of confidence in Him.”
“Don't tell me the moon is shining”
“Sometimes the words people don't say are as powerful as the ones they do.”
“I smiled back and I thoughthow incredible that was, that they would find the time to smile. There was goodness in the world still, even if you couldnt always see it.”
“It was strange how loud the world was when you weren't filling it up with your own noise.”
“This world has only two kinds of people: villains and smiling villains.”
“We cannot stop wanting. Wanting is the tireless engine of life itself.”
“To trust in your own aliveness, in your own ability to sustain and be sustained - there are times when there is no greater act of defiance.”
