“Even more, I had never meant to love him. One thing I truly knew- knew it from the pit of my stomach, in the center of my bones, knew it from the crown of my head to the soles of my feet, knew it deep in my empty chest- was how love gave someone the power to break you.
I'd been broken beyond repair.”
Source: New Moon
“The last time always seems sad, but it isn't really. The end of one thing is only the beginning of another.”
Source: These Happy Golden Years
“When I woke up the next morning, the first thing I did was go to my window. Who knew how many more times I would see this view?”
Source: It's Not Summer Without You
“What we possess owns us, and we absolutely own nothing.”
Source: From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence
“Good health means more to me than many possession.”
“If we opt, over and over, to surrender our valuable energy and time to people and things that hold no real value and, worse, separate us from the people and things that do, the joke’s on us and we have only ourselves to blame.”
Source: Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality
“Time made apologies and absolution unnecessary. Time didn't really heal, it just made bad memories distant so that the brain couldn't recapture the lost pain”
Source: A Breath of Fresh Air
“What is lost is returned to me,
what is far away is near me today.”
Source: My Poems Won't Change the World: Selected Poems
“We are all entitled to our opinions and religious beliefs, but we are not entitled to make shit up and then use the shit we made up to oppress other people.”
Source: Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
“What if you allowed your God to exist in he simple words of compassion others offer you? ... What if the greatest beauty of the day is the shaft of sunlight through our window? What if the worst thing happened and you rose anyway? What if you trusted in the human scale? What if you listened harder to the story of the man on the cross who found a way to endure his suffering more than to the one about the impossible magic of the Messiah? Would you see the miracle in that?”
Source: Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar