Small kindnesses often, unintentionally, produce the biggest payoffs.

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.

As we walk our individual life journeys, we pick up resentments and hurts, which attach themselves to our souls like burrs clinging to a hiker's socks. These stowaways may seem insignificant at first, but, over time, if we do not occasionally stop and shake them free, the accumulation becomes a burden to our souls.

It was the first time that I had ever been romantically kissed. It was even better than the chocolate cake.

There are people who come into our lives as welcome as a cool breeze in summer- and last about as long.

such fickle days of love when pain and ecstasy share the same hour

We're all moons. Sometimes our dark sides overshadow our light.