1.
Family is not always the people with whom you share DNA. Sometimes, family is the person who fights the hardest for your happiness.
Cassia Leo
2.
The relentless pull of love is a thousand times harder to fight than the tides. If you’re lucky, you’ll make it out before you drown. If you’re even luckier, you’re pulled under just long enough to wash away the sorrow. If you’re really lucky, like me, you resurface just in time to find the one you love floating right beside you.
Cassia Leo
3.
There's a little blackness inside all of us.
Cassia Leo
4.
If love is a drug, then it's the kind that should be prescribed.
Cassia Leo
5.
That time of day when the sun hasn’t come up yet, but you can already feel it coming. It’s an elusive warmth, like a subtle promise whispered in your ear and you can go on with your day knowing you’ve been given another chance to get it right.
Cassia Leo
6.
Because sometimes you have to suffer without the things you want now so you can have everything you need later.
Cassia Leo
7.
Sometimes letting someone go is the ultimate act of love.
Cassia Leo
8.
It's not our mistakes that define us. It's the lessons we learn that show our true character.
Cassia Leo
9.
We feel the love of strangers every day in the things they do that affect us without our knowledge.
Cassia Leo
10.
There are moments in life, and they happen so infrequently that they tend to really stand out, when life hands you the gift of perspective. Sometimes, we forget to show our appreciation. Sometimes, we get our priorities mixed up. And, sometimes, we forget how far we’ve come. But life always has a way of nudging you to remind you about these important things.
Cassia Leo
11.
Sometimes you forget how much you love someone, until you realize their smile is like a spotlight shined on your heart.
Cassia Leo
12.
Once you see the good in someone, it's hard not to notice the good in everyone.
Cassia Leo
13.
Fear is crippling. Fear of the future can convince us that there is no way out and nothing is ever going to get better. Fear is blinding; it can make us miss the warning signs flashing right in front of our eyes. It can also make you miss those brilliant flashes of color, when the world isn't so gray. But, if you think about it, being afraid isn't such a bad thing. Because fear is a reminder that you still have something to lose. Something worth holding onto.
Cassia Leo
14.
It’s not really the love that I envy, it’s the trust. The feeling that no matter how bad you screw up, there is always someone who will accept you and love you for who you are; not because they have to, just because they can’t not love you.
Cassia Leo
15.
Sometimes, you just have to reassure the ones you love in precise language that you'll always be there. Sometimes words are enough.
Cassia Leo
16.
Life has shown me all too often that there is no rhyme or reason to the cruelty inflicted upon humanity.
Cassia Leo
17.
The quickest path to self-destruction is to push away the people you love.
Cassia Leo
18.
The world can fall to pieces around us, but in the end, we'll always make it back to us.
Cassia Leo