All endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at th... - Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet In Heaven

"Sacrfice,"the captain said. "You made one. I made one. We all made them. But you were angry over yours. You kept thinking about what you lost. You didn't get it. Sacrifice is a part of life. It's supposed to be. It's not something to regret. It's something to aspire to."

"Sacrifice is a part of life. It's supposed to be. It's not something to regret. It's something to aspire to."

"In order to move on, you must understand why you felt what you did and why you no longer need to feel it."

"Love like rain, can nourish from above, drenching couples with soaking joy. But sometimes, under the angry heat of life, love dries on the surface and must nourish from below, tending to its roots, keeping itself alive."

"All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair."