My battered heart will always be where the ocean meets the sand, I will break over and overEvery day. That is the best andworst part of me.

It’s just so strange.You used to love me, and now you’re a strangerwho happens to know allof my secrets.

All this timeI drank you like the cure when maybeyou were the poison.

But my heart is an old house(the kind my mothergrew up in)hell to heat and cooland faulty in the wiringand though it’s nice to look atI have no businessinviting lovers in.

Be merciful until you can't be.Until you feel your heart begin to harden into a bullet.Then use that bullet.

I will love you when you are a still day.I will love you when you are a hurricane.

The good news is you survived. The bad news is you're hurt and no one can heal you but yourself.

We are more than the worst thing that's ever happened to us. All of us need to stop apologizing, for having been to hell and come back breathing.

I don't know whyI've got so much hopepinned to someone who will never call me home.

YOU NEVER NEED TO APOLOGIZEFOR HOW YOU CHOSE TO SURVIVE

I brought a knife to the gunfight. I am the knife. I am all blade.

Worry is itself an illness, since worry is an accusation against Divine Wisdom, a criticism of Divine Mercy.

I exaggerated even before I began to exaggerate, because it's true — nothing is ever quite as bad as it could be.

Great is the good fortune of a state in which the citizens have a moderate and sufficient property.

Time goes by at such a pace,it's funny how it's easy to forget her face

Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.

I like the idea that my work isn't intended only for the Earth, but for the entire Universe.

You may not know it, but at the far end of despair, there is a white clearing where one is almost happy.

If there are only you and the music in the room, it means that there are two persons in the room! Music is a live being!

Another day, another opportunity to prove everyone who doubts you wrong.

Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.