"All endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time."
"Love is an endless act of forgiveness. Forgiveness is me giving up the right to hurt you for hurting me."
"We are all damaging in some way. We ravage and we sacrifice, and we even destroy. But sometimes, just sometimes, we save."
"The truth is, once you learn how to die, you learn how to live."
"We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand."
"Everyone has a story. And every story deserves to be told, especially the ones that are hardest to hear."
"The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning."
"Death is not the enemy. The enemy is what death protects us from."
"We are each responsible for our own life."
"All endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time."
"Learn this from me. Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from the inside. We think that hating is a weapon that attacks the person who harmed us. But hatred is a curved blade. And the harm we do, we do to ourselves."
"Life has to end. Love doesn't."
"Sacrifice is a part of life. It's supposed to be. It's not something to regret. It's something to aspire to."
"Strangers are just family you have yet to come to know."
"People think of heaven as a paradise garden, a place where they can float on clouds and laze in rivers and mountains. But scenery without solace is meaningless."
"All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair."
"The human spirit knows, deep down, that all lives intersect. That death doesn't just take someone, it misses someone else, and in the small distance between being taken and being missed, lives are changed."
"Lost love is still love. It takes a different form, that's all. You can't see their smile or bring them food or tousle their hair or move them around a dance floor. But when those senses weaken another heightens. Memory. Memory becomes your partner. You nurture it. You hold it. You dance with it."
"There are no random acts...We are all connected...You can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind..."
"Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on to someone else."
"This is the greatest gift God can give you: to understand what happened in your life. To have it make sense. It is the peace you have been searching for."
"All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair."
"The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in."
"No story sits by itself. Sometimes stories meet at corners and sometimes they cover one another completely, like stones beneath a river."
"The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone."
"All endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time."
"I realized when you look at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know."
"The secret of heaven is that it is a state of being – the feeling of pure peace and pure love."
"There are five people you meet in heaven. Each of us was in your life for a reason. You may not have known the reason at the time, and that is what heaven is for. For understanding your life on earth."