We're better off not worrying about ourselves, and to do that, we have to worry about others.
Sometimes doing the right thing does take more courage, but the feeling it gives you deep inside makes it worth it.
Being rich and coming from a distinguished family background doesn't guarantee happiness, Abby. In fact, it might make happiness harder to find because you have to live up to akk that expectation.
I remembered Grandmere Catherine used to tell me your first impressions about people usually prove to be the truest because your heart is the first to react.
Whatever doesn't destroy you, makes you stronger. Hardships have a way of toughening us, if they don't kill us.
We had been separated by time and distance and events so long, it was as if we had to get to know each other again, but if it was possible to fall in love with the same person twice, I did.
Was I prone to sadness and melancholy? How could anyone like that? It wasn't that I wanted it; it was that I was so used to hard rains, I couldn't help expecting a cloudburst every time something nice happened and sunshine beamed down over me.
Yes, I am a prisoner of sorts, but my prison isn't the house. It's my own thoughts that lock me up!
It's better not to make a promise than to make one you can't keep.
