If an object – a star, for instance, like our own sun – is eight hundred light years away from the Earth, it would take light leaving that object eight hundred years until it reached...

I made sure to pay attention to everything I was doing. To be fully in the moment. Because that’s all life is, really, a string of moments that you knot together and carry with you....

Do you ever think if people heard our conversations they’d lock us up?”All the time.

It’s not an old book, or a treasure map. Nope. Staring up at me was a pile of rocks.

I blame my dad for my sweet tooth. His motto was ‘Life is short; eat dessert first.’ How can I argue with that?

A fight is going on inside me,” said an old man to his son. “It is a terrible fight between two wolves. One wolf is evil. He is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity,...

When I was your age I knew nothing about the world or my place in it. I figured I’d be someone’s wife, then someone’s mother. It never occurred to me to be someone myself.

They say the eyes are the window to the soul.

Maybe some things aren’t meant to be known. maybe there just meant to be accepted.

He looks up at me with watery eyes and asks, ‘How can you, of all people, say everything will be all right?’ He has a point. I consider my answer. ‘Well, it’s better than saying...

As long as you know who you are, and see what makes you happy, it doesn’t matte how others see you

I realized that love is stronger than death and that people you barely know can amaze you.

Whereever you end up;” Jack whispered into my ear.”I wish you clear skies. Always

We are here because over billions of years, countless variables fell into place, any of which could have taken another path. We are essentially a beautiful fluke, as are the millions of other species with...

I’ve learned that the universe doesn’t care what our motives are, only our actions. So we should do things that will bring about good, even if there is an element of selfishness involved. Like the...

I am not plain, or average or – God forbid – vanilla. I am peanut butter rocky road with multicolored sprinkles, hot fudge and a cherry on top.

505If nothing ever changed,there’d be no such thing as butterflies.

Everyone thinks I named my cat Mango because of his orange eyes, but that’s not the case. I named him Mango because the sounds of his purrs and his wheezes and his meows are all...

Because that’s all life is, really, a string of moments that you knot together and carry with you.

No I am not okay. I’ve just been pulled out of play tryouts where I had to be the first to audition and everyone’s trying out for the same parts, I just had a very...

Everything we think we know is really only perceived by our senses,’ he explains patiently. ‘The sounds we hear are just waves in the air; colors are electromagnetic radiation; your sense of taste comes from...

I wonder what else I could do that I never thought I could.

When people see you’re happy doing what you’re doing, it sort of takes the power away from them to tease you about it.

The trick is that as long as you know who you are and what makes you happy, it doesn’t matter how others see you.