It is in the dark times that the light of friendship shines brightest.
In the end, we all lose it. Remember that. In the end, we own nothing.
I don’t think it is as much a human foible as it is a human curse that we cannot understand the beauty of a thing until it is gone.
We can spend our days bemoaning our losses, or we can grow from them. Ultimately the choice is ours. We can be victims of circumstance or masters of our own fate, but make no mistake, we cannot be both. The Walk – Epilogue Page 288.
Mr. Dallstrom is a bald, scarecrow of a man with a poochy stomache. Think of a pregnant Abraham Lincoln.
I love when I can reboot people when they are being mean to others...
The greatest shackles we bear in thislife are those forged by our own fears.
There’s no hurt so great that love can’t heal it.
We cannot enslave others without enslaving a part of ourselves.
Sometimes, when tragedy strikes, people give up hope that they can expect anything more from life, when the real quest is finding out what life expects from them.
Dwelling on him would make him a bigger part of my life than I want him to be.
I believe that in spite of the chains we bind ourselves with, there’s a primordial section of the human psyche that is still nomadic and still yearns to roam free.
The thing is, the only real sign of life is growth. And growth requires pain. So to choose life is to accept pain.
Leah taught me that the greatest secret of life is that we find exactly what we’re looking for. In spite of what happens to us, ultimately we decide whether our lives are good or bad, ugly or beautiful.
Life has taught me that to fly, you must first accept the possibility of falling.
There’s a problem with marrying up. You always worry that someday they’ll see through you and leave. Or, worse yet, someone better will come along and take her. In my case, it wasn’t someone. And it wasn’t something better.
I’ve never understood why people said ‘in your own words.’ Who else’s words would I use?
Suffering ceases to be suffering when we form a clear picture of it.
There are people who come into our lives as welcome as a cool breeze in summer- and last about as long.
Sometimes we can only find ourselves by first losing ourselves.