"Some birds aren't meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up does rejoice. But still, the place you live in is that much more drab and empty now that they're gone...."

Let me tell you something my friend. Hope is a dangerous thing. Hope can drive a man insane.

003. "I guess I could be pretty pissed off about what happened to me... but it's hard to stay mad, when there's so much beauty in the world. Sometimes I feel like I'm seeing it all at once, and it's too much, my heart fills up like a balloon that's about to burst... And then I remember to relax, and stop trying to hold on to it, and then it flows through me like rain and I can't feel anything but gratitude for every single moment of my stupid little life... You have no idea what I'm talking about, I'm sure. But don't worry... you will someday." -- American Beauty

It was something I'd been missing, that I'd been longing for without even realizing it. It was a s sense of family. That's what it was. My throat closed up, got so tight I felt like I might cry. You just get to missing that so much, that feeling of everything in its right place. You just feel that loss so deeply that you don't ever give it a name... You just never knew where you might find your kindred ones. Usually you just walk and walk among people who are not of your tribe, and then suddenly, there you are, in a place that feels familiar and known.

- Wild Roses by Deb Caletti

She was elusive. She was today. She was tomorrow. She was the faintest scent of a cactus flower, the flitting shadow of an elf owl. We did not know what to make of her. In our minds we tried to pin her to a corkboard like a butterfly, but the pin merely went through and away she flew.

It's that feeling you get right in your core, when you look around, look at all the people you're surrounded by, and realize that these people are home.

0015. People ask me, "Why do you believe in God? How do you know God exists? What if God is a hoax?" But I mean, why do people believe in love? So many people kill each other; our world is degrading, divorces are at a all time high, & a lot of people cheat on one another. With all that, how can you believe in love? When you hear it like that, love just sounds like a hoax. But when you see love, when you feel love, it gives you this hope. That's why you hear about it all the time; that's why it's the biggest issue in our world. Love is something cliché as it sounds, it's truly unexplainable.

God is unexplainable. He sent his only son to die for us, us humans who are so

screwed up. Love is the very foundation our universe is built upon. Without love, none of us would be here.

0016. The hardest thing about growing up is that you have to do what's best for you,

even if it means breaking someone's heart, including your own.

- Chloe Higashida

I want to trace your scars with my fingertips, want to follow it's fracturing line. I think you should know how beautiful and brave you already are.

If you want to know the nature of love, look at a person when they have nothing left to give. And if they keep giving beyond that point -- that is love. To give when you don't have, to love when you can't love, to reach out when your hands are so weary that you can't even lift them.