“I may not always like at times, but life is a beautiful blend of joy, tragedy and dreams. If not for one, I could not have the other.”

“I had to ask myself why I'm continuing to engage in behavior I knew hurt. What was my payoff? Did it confirm my belief I was not enough? Did I think I needed to suffer? Did I think I could save him...”

“I call my it "the Book of Paula" or BoP for short. Those are my own opinions, based on experience.”

“The truth, for me, is I do accept everyone. I believe people are going to be who they are going to be. Moreover, I strongly disagree that it is my place in life to judge who they are. Or to attempt...”

“As I was standing in my kitchen cooking yesterday, a quiet task that causes my mind to begin reminiscing (similar to washing dishes, cleaning the bathrooms and mowing), I reached for the kitchen sc...”

“All of the years I spent trying to be someone you could be proud of would have been better spent being proud of myself for who I already was.”

“Praying in a Temple is like Lighting a Candle. One kills the ignorance and the other kills the darkness .”

“Always surround yourself with friends that have plenty of light in them. That way, you will always have candles around you when days are dark.”

“What would be the significance of the candlelight, if there were no darkness? What would be the power of the stars over our minds, if there were no night?”

“If only I woulda done that.I really shoulda done that.I coulda done that.I ask, Do you really know what your life would be like now if you made those choices? Believing in regret strips away our on...”

“For every moment that is past, the angel of death keeps taking the part that is dead and we keeping living in the present. The parasite wants us to carry the past with us and that makes it so heavy...”

“Suffering needs time. It cannot survive in the now.”