Usually the most interesting stories are written not on paper but hearts.

sometimes it's the fight that makes a thing worth having

Some so fear the future that they suffocate the present. It's like committing suicide to avoid being murdered.

Rarely do we invest the time to open the book of another's life. When we do, we are usually surprised to find its cover so misleading and its reviews so flawed.

We spend our life building higher fences and stronger locks, when the gravest dangers are already inside

It is often during the worst of times that we see the best of humanity–awakening within the most ordinary of us that which is most sublime. I do not believe that it is circumstance that produces such greatness any more than it is the canvas that makes the artist. Adversity merely presents the surface on which we render our souls’ most exacting likeness. It is in the darkest skies that stars are best seen.

There can be no joy without gratitude.