Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day, and I believe in miracles.

And even if somebody else has it much worse, that doesn’t really change the fact that you have what you have. Good and bad

The biggest disease this world suffers from is the disease of people feeling unloved.

So, I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we’ll never know most of them. But even if we don’t have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there. We can still do things. And we can try to feel okay about them


I do not trust people who don’t love themselves and yet tell me, ‘I love you.’ There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.


He is beautiful and fascinating—like a book I read when I was a little girl but forgot I knew until I heard it again.


For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.

If you truly love someone, accept their past and leave it there


One of the reasons we crave love, and seek it so desperately, is that love is the only cure for loneliness, and shame, and sorrow. But some feelings sink so deep into the heart that only loneliness can help you find them again. Some truths about yourself are so painful that only shame can help you live with them. And some things are just so sad that only your soul can do the crying for you.