But I think sometimes a person has to be forced underwater to see if they're going to drown or swim.

Every woman needs a daughter to tell her stories to.

There is how we were before, and how we are now, and the time between is spent choosing which doors to open, and which to close.

There are no completely good or bad people. Everybody makes mistakes, or bad choices. It's how we live with them that make us the people we are.

Adversity in life does not rob your heart of beauty. It simply teaches it a new song to sing.

I know what it is to hope and pray so hard that you're sure God will answer your prayer just so you'll stop asking.

To give up too easily leads to regret, yet trying and then failing can lead us to second chances if we do not accept it as a failure, but a chance to learn.

But there is room now in my heart for more memories, carved by a letting go that I could find only by coming home to a place I'd never been.

Miles and years become suddenly invisible when you find yourself back where you started from, as if you've learned nothing and you are once again the person you once were.

A great man once wrote, Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire. If only I were as eloquent as Mr. de la Rochefoucauld...I miss you, I miss you, I miss you. And I want you. And I need your kiss. And your touch on my skin like a man needs water. Always.

Moving on doesn't mean forgetting.

A life without rain is like the sun without shade.