“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.”

“Think twice before you try to convince someone by killing the truth.”

“Its better to Convince by words rather than your Hands. We should not degrade our Standard for others. - Merlin Thomas”

“There's just something obvious about emptiness, even when you try to convince yourself otherwise. ”

“I have to convince myself every night that I love you before I go to sleep lest I wake up empty.”

“...nothing in the world is harder than convincing someone of an unfamiliar truth.”

“The creature who lives inside my brain suggested I do it, I offered tentatively. It was very convincing.”

“No matter how sweet is smells, if you know it will give you a discomfort later, don't even attempt to taste it. Discipline yourself to stay out of sin!”

“All those who are not straightforward (frank and forthright) in this world are full of deception.”

“Intelligence without wisdom is nothing more than stupidity that looks smart.”