We pretend to be strong because we are weak.

My heart might be bruised, but it will recover and become capable of seeing beauty of life once more. It's happened before, it will happen again, I'm sure. When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive--I'll find love again.

It is possible to avoid pain? Yes, but you'll never learn anything. Is it possible to know something without ever having experiencing it? Yes, but it will never truly be part of you.

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.

we're allowed to make a lot of mistakes in our lives, except the mistake that destroy us

You can't avoid pain, but you can choose to overcome it.

You told me that all life's battles teach us something, even those we lose.

You drown not by falling in the river but by staying submerged in it.

The pain of yesterday is the strength of today

The desert takes our dreams away from us, and they don't always return.... Those who don't return become a part of the clouds, a part of the animals that hide in the ravines and of the water that comes from the earth. They become part of everything … They become the Soul of the World.

Suffering when cannot be avoided, is to help your way to glory....all rivers flow into the same sea.

We must love because we are loved by God. We must be conscious of death if we are to have a proper understanding of life. We must struggle in order to grow