Fate always gives you two choices, the one you should take, and the one you do.

It doesnt always help us to love the world,but it does prevent us from hating the world.

You can never tell what people have inside them until you start taking it away, one hope at a time

Some feelings sink so deep into the heart that only loneliness can help you find them again. Some truths are so painful that only shame can help you live with them. Some things are so sad that only your soul can do the crying for them.

While I was chained to a wall and being tortured, I realized, through the screaming of my mind, that even in that shackled, bloody helplessness, I was still free: free to hate the men who were torturing me, or to forgive them. It doesn't sound like much, I know. But in the flinch and bite of the chain, when it's all you've got, that freedom is a universe of possibility. And the choice you make between hating and forgiving, can become the story of your life.

The burden of happiness can only be relieved by the balm of suffering.

I don't know what frightens me more, the power that crushes us, or our endless ability to endure it.