Don't think that there's a different, better child 'hiding' behind the autism. This is your child. Love the child in front of you. Encourage his strengths, celebrate his quirks, and improve his weaknesses, the way you would with any child.

Claire Scovell LaZebnik

Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.

Joan Lunden

You can't defeat the darkness by keeping it caged inside of you.

Seth Adam Smith

Be willing to release those things stored in your heart and mind that are causing you discomfort.

Iyanla Vanzant

Grief turns out to be a place none of us know until we reach it.

Joan Didion

But you know that disappointment is just the action of your brain readjusting itself to reality after discovering things are not the way you thought they were.

Brad Warner