“My worth is not based on the work of my hands despite how feverishly I might work and how audaciously successful I might be. Rather, my worth is based exclusively on the astonishing fact that I am ...”

“I am selfish by habit, but sacrificial by nature. Therefore, Id be wise to develop the habit of following my nature.”

“Ignorance might be bliss, but it also has teeth.”

“Peace is achieved when our conscience rests in the fact that weve engaged in right living, verses believing that living is a right.”

“A life that chooses not to grow is a life that died long before it ever lived.”

“To spin the tale with great flourish but never live the tale is the power of vision strangled to fiction by the fiction of fear.”

“As always, self-esteem had created an ability to be generous.”

“You know what an illusion is? On this planet, one small cloud has the ability to block the entire sun.”

“Sometimes life knocks you on your ass... get up, get up, get up!!! Happiness is not the absence of problems, it's the ability to deal with them.”

“Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not de...”

“My interpretation can only be as inerrant as I am, and that's good to keep in mind.”

“When you translate the Bible with excessive literalism, you demythologize it. The possibility of a convincing reference to the individual's own spiritual experience is lost. (111)”

“I find that...The bigger the ego.The bigger the mouth.The deeper the shallowness of a person.”

“Love never lives on a one-way street, for it will always come back up the road bigger than how we had sent it down the road.”

“Maybe a person's world can grow bigger in all the right ways, not too wide that it becomes shallow, just large enough to preserve its depth.”