"Patiently persevere in the face of hardship hoping for a good outcome because you never know how many dead hearts you will bring to life in the process. No hardship lasts forever. There is always an end."

“Earth is a homicide victim. We lose our children. There are wars. Disease. And God comes strolling by like a cosmic Billie Burke.”

“Life is just like a book. Only after you've read it do you know how it ends. It is when we are at the end of life that we know how our life ran. Mine, until now, has been black. As black as my skin. Black as the garbage dump where I live.”

Source : Carolina Maria De Jesus (1990). “Beyond All Pity”

“If Adam was stupid about his pride, Gansey was stupid about Adam.”

“No theory of life seemed to him to be of any importance compared with life itself”

“It's in understanding yourself deeply that you can lend yourself to another person's circumstances and another person's experience.”

“Depressed people think they know themselves, but maybe they only know depression.”

Source : Geshe Tsering, Mark Epstein (2010). “Going on Being: The Foundation of Buddhist Thought:”, p.8, ReadHowYouWant.com

“Life doesn't often turn out the way we think it will, does it?”

“I am 38 years old, and I want to live in Puerto Rico and I want to create a path forward for growth. I realize that have come at the most challenging times to become governor, but I want to push things forward.”