“When our thoughts, at times, wander into darkness... remember we are human and have been imbued with free will to choose the light.”

“When we repay unkindness with unkindness, we perpetuate the cycle of negativity within which our world is embroiled. We have the right and responsibility to choose differently.”

“Time grants a unique perspective which allows us to see events through a filter of accumulated wisdom.”

“Humankind has turned to world into a cruel and inhospitable place. The thing that makes it all bearable is the potential for loving companionship.”

“What makes one strong is not the ability to confront adversity and cruelty, but rather the ability to love in spite of it.”

“Getting healthy will always result in weight loss as a side effect, but a side effect of dieting and weight loss is often poorer health.”

“Sometimes when you go through things, you bottle them up inside and try to act like everything is fine. Because you want to forget they ever happened. But you have to trust me when I say that doesn...”

“When you're a black woman, her mother said, ain't no hiding what you are. Day you try, is the day you die. Stand tall, smile bright, and let 'em wonder what secret's making you laugh.”

“If you don't go through the shaking, you shall never be ready for the making.”

“Stay strong in strength of spirituality.”

“Pain gives you will power to survive, to survive you have to fight, the struggle makes you strong. strength makes you mature, maturity makes you immune to the things that causes you pain. Things hu...”

“Beyond the limit of suffering is strength.”

“Nothing is as it seems, but something is everything it is made out to be.”

“Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?”

“You'd be surprised how easy some things can be, things you never thought you'd do, when you take self-respect out of the equation.”