Family is not always the people with whom you share DNA. Sometimes, family is the person who fights the hardest for your happiness.

The relentless pull of love is a thousand times harder to fight than the tides. If you’re lucky, you’ll make it out before you drown. If you’re even luckier, you’re pulled under just long enough to wash away the sorrow. If you’re really lucky, like me, you resurface just in time to find the one you love floating right beside you.

Life has shown me all too often that there is no rhyme or reason to the cruelty inflicted upon humanity.

That time of day when the sun hasn’t come up yet, but you can already feel it coming. It’s an elusive warmth, like a subtle promise whispered in your ear and you can go on with your day knowing you’ve been given another chance to get it right.

It's not our mistakes that define us. It's the lessons we learn that show our true character.

Sometimes letting someone go is the ultimate act of love.

We feel the love of strangers every day in the things they do that affect us without our knowledge.