The Personal Words

“Sometimes suffering is just suffering. It doesn’t make you stronger. It doesn’t build character. It only hurts.” - Kate Jacobs; Comfort Food

“Good conversations with the right people are priceless.” - Unknown

“Love is friendship that has caught fire.” - Ann Landers

“Nothing lasts, you see, not even the thoughts inside you. And you mustn’t waste your time looking for them. Once a thing is gone, that is the end of it.” - Paul Auster, The Invention of Solitude

“There are many things I don’t know, but quite a few I do. I know you can’t be lost if you know where you are. I know that life is full of precious and fragile things, and not all of them are pretty. I know that the sun follows the moon and makes days, one after another. Time passes. The world turns, and we turn with it, and though we can never go back to the beginning, sometimes, we can start again.” - Megan Hart, Broken

“Please be stronger than your past. The future may still give you a chance.” - George Michael

“It’s just this strange thing I do where I allow myself to briefly fall in love with another human being that I see on a train, or the sidewalk, or in a warm café.” - Chelsea Fagan

“You are going to break your promise. I understand. And I hold my hands over the ears of my heart, so that I will not hate you.” - Catherynne M. Valente, Deathless

“I notice everything, I just act like I don’t.” - Unknown

“Dream it. Believe it. Achieve it.” - English Saying

“I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I’ve led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I’ve loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough.” - Nicholas Sparks

“All I want to do is hold you into the night and wake up knowing you’re still there.” - Malcolm Moon

“The sun watches what I do. But the moon knows all my secrets.” - Unknown

“If you are not willing to look stupid, nothing great will ever happen to you.” - Unknown

“Silence doesn’t always mean you have nothing to say. It may mean you realize that words aren’t always necessary.” - Hart Ramsey

“The scariest thing about distance is you don’t know whether they’ll miss you or forget about you.” - The Notebook

“Never regret something that once made you smile.” - Amber Deckers