“It's not strength, it's PERCEPTION that makes you stronger. If you change how you SEE it, you'll change how you FEEL about it.”

“Even when you don't see Him working, He's busy working on your behalf. Forever grateful for God's grace!”

“If my fall made you smile, you might not want to witness what's about to happen when I get up.”

“Don't allow the fear of falling stop you from pursuing your dream. Prepare. Practice. Pray. Jump! It's through the fall that you'll realize you can to fly.”

“Compassion, acceptance and LOVE is the cure to MOST of the issues that plague this world.”

“While you're waiting on opportunity, it might be waiting on you to come to it. Get up and go get it!”

“There are two types of seeds in the mind: those that create anger, fear, frustration, jealousy, hatred and those that create love, compassion, equanimity and joy. Spirituality is germination and sp...”

“My music teacher offered twittering madrigals and something about how, in Italy, in Italy, the oranges hang on the tree. He treated me - the humiliation of it - as a soprano.These, by contrast, are...”

“If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you're allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind.”

“There are parts of a womans heart that are reserved for certain types of love. Experiencing the love of a father figure in an appropriate way is essential in paving the way for the love of a man to...”

“You may think that hiding your pain from sight is somehow going to make it disappear. I can tell you from experience that it isnt. It is just like the time as a kid when you really didnt want to ea...”

“My dear sister, you cant escape God, and you cant escape your skeletons in the closet. They will always be there until you take them out from behind those dusty old moth-eaten coats. Your exterior ...”

“here she is, all mine, trying her best to give me all she can. How could I ever hurt her? But I didnt understand then. That I could hurt somebody so badly she would never recover. That a person can...”

“Any happiness, no matter how brief, seemed better than the long, simmering torture of waking up day after day, knowing I could never have him.”

“Everyone always wants to know how you can tell when it's true love, and the answer is this: when the pain doesn't fade and the scars don't heal, and it's too damned late.”