It is impossible for you to take power over the future because it isn't even real...

Somehow the pain, the losses, the hurt, the bad, God is able to transform these into something they could have never been, icons and monuments of grace and love. It is the deep mystery how wounds and scars can become precious, or a ravaging and terrifying cross the essential symbol of relentless affection.” “Is it worth it?” whispered Tony. “Wrong question, son. There is no ‘it.’ The question is and has always been, ‘Are you worth it?’ and the answer is and always, ‘Yes!’

I had a very angry father and was disconnected from my family.

"Pain has a way of clipping our wings and keeping us from being able to fly"... "And if left unresolved you can almost forget that you were ever created to fly in the first place."

Forgiveness is not about forgetting. It is about letting go of another person's throat.

It is not the nature of love to force a relationship, but it is the nature of love to open the way.

Today's minor irritations may become tomorrow's treasured memories. We often don't know what we are missing, until it's missing.