There are two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations.
Maybe if you spend your life pretending you're on a movie set, you don't ever have to admit that the walls are made out of paper and the food is plastic and the words in your mouth aren't really yours.
Losing Chloe had been like reading a wonderfulook only to realize that all the pages past a certain point were blank.
How could you beat an enemy you couldn't see?
And in general, the residents of the town wondered why they all felt hollow just beneath the throat, the result of missing something they had never been able to name in the first place.
There's always going to be bad stuff out there. But here's the amazing thing -- light trumps darkness, every time. You stick a candle into the dark, but you can't stick the dark into the light.
I wish I could tell him I understand: the higher you raise your hopes, the farther you have to fall.
He is dark and quiet and completely different from me, which is exactly why I should put distance between us. But it is also the reason I find him so fascinating.
Sometimes to get what you want the most, you have to do what you want the least.
Words are like eggs dropped from great heights; you can no more call them back than ignore the mess they leave when they fall.
Life can change in an instant; don't be so worried about the future that you forget to celebrate what you have right now.
This is what I like about photographs. They're proof that once, even if just for a heartbeat, everything was perfect.
For better or for worse, music is the language of memory. It is also the language of love.
You might not write well every day, but you can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank page.
Heroes didn't leap tall buildings or stop bullets with an outstretched hand; they didn't wear boots and capes. They bled, and they bruised, and their superpowers were as simple as listening, or loving. Heroes were ordinary people who knew that even if their own lives were impossibly knotted, they could untangle someone else's. And maybe that one act could lead someone to rescue you right back.
When you want something bad, you'll tell yourself a thousand lies.
Sometimes you can see things happen right in front of your eyes and still jump to the wrong conclusions.
They say that there are moments that open up your life like a walnut cracked, that change your point of view so that you never look at things the same way again.
He gently touched his mother's cheek, felt her sorrow slip over his fingertips.
Happiness is what you choose to remember.
You can't look back - you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future.
The ability to find sparks may be buried so deep in you that you stop believing there's a God. Until someone comes along, with so much light in her that you can't help but see your own, and when you're together,that light grows even brighter.
Where you come from does matter -- but not nearly as much as where you are headed.
Beliefs are the roads we take to our dreams. Believe you can do something-or believe you can't-and you'll be right everytime.
Forgiving isn't something you do for someone else. It's something you do for yourself. It's saying, 'You're not important enough to have a stranglehold on me.' It's saying, 'You don't get to trap me in the past. I am worthy of a future.
"Everyone still deserves to have their say."
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