83 quotes found
“It's not a crime to feel sad, down or depressed. Moving through difficult feelings is an essential part of living life authentically. Though society would have us believe that when we are sad, we n...”
“When the silence and the aloneness press down and around me, crushing me, carving through me like ice, I need to speak aloud sometimes, if only for proof of life.”
“May our spirit fill us with understanding of victory and defeat, the gift of collaboration, the wisdom to choose the right path, and opportunities that inspire hope.”
“I understand that sometimes the only way we can survive our own memories is to shape them into a story that makes sense out of events that seem inexplicable.”
“Something still exists as long as there's someone still around to remember it.”
“When problems beat upon you like a raging storm, search for the eye. You might not be able to avoid misfortunes, but you can find the calmest spot within them.”
“No one can escape their past. The sins we've committed... and the sadness we've caused... No matter how far we run, our past remains, as ever-present as the moon in the sky. It looms in wait... for...”
“To get through the night, I sometimes imagined the sky filled with a canopy of stars. I imagined that each star contained the soul of a girl or boy who had died too young, and the light the stars g...”
“Jacob: "Let her stare."Terra: "What?"Jacob: "Yeah most of the starers are just curious. Smile back. That's what I used to do.”
“Close your eyes, real tight, and then count to three hundred. Thats all you have to do. You just count to three hundred, and when you open your eyes, five minutes will have passed. And even if it h...”
“My acupuncturist once told me that it doesn't have to hurt to work. She might have meant the needles, but I think she really meant love.”
“Don't cry about it. Write about it.”
“I repeat one of my mantras. 'This is not happening. This is not real. This did not happen to you. That was someone else.”
“I also know I'm not going to stay away. I'm going to grab onto her and let myself get cut. I'm good at pain. I'm good at bleeding, emotionally and physically.”
“When confronted with challenge,I discover my inner strength.”
“The Lord has put more hardships atop the shoulders of my neighbors more than I can even fathom coping with. I will strive to find a way to turn pity into admiration, for what use is it to send pit...”
“Perhaps gratitude and love are one and the same.”
“We are all somewhat mercurial for temperament, and it is much easier to believe that all is well when the sun is shining, and yet, is not the sun always shining just behind the clouds that never last?”
“The thing about pain, whether physical or emotional, is there's no running away. You can't escape it and you can't hide from it. Not by ignoring it, not by drugging it, not by doing a swan dive int...”
“Absence of problems does not lead to happiness. Dealing with them does.”
