Don't allow your past or present condition to control you. It's just a process that you're going through to get you to the next level.

If you think down, you will go down. If you think up, you will go up. You’ll always travel in the direction of your thinking.

Surround yourself with people whose definition of you is not based on your history, but your destiny.

Never make a permanent decision based on a temporary storm.. No matter how raging the billows are today, remind yourself: "This too shall pass!"

God is not preparing the Blessing for YOU, He is preparing YOU for the Blessing

When you begin to realize that your past does not necessarily dictate the outcome of your future, then you can release the hurt. It is impossible to inhale new air until you exhale the old.

Not everyone will be happy when you begin to better yourself. Those who are for you will not just celebrate in your triumphs, but they will also pray with you through your tribulations.

Real value isn’t in what you own, drive, wear or live. The greater value is found in love and life, health and strength, friends and family!

Your words will tell others what you think. Your actions will tell them what you believe.

God has invested entirely too much in you for you to be comfortable in anything less than you were created to be.

God is a businessman. He is not going to do business with someone who shows no sign of potential return. He invests in people who demonstrate an ability to handle what He has given them.

If Christ were here there is one thing he would not be—a Christian.

The Power of Intuition is not Magic, but pure Logic for those who let it burst from their Inspiration!

I take thee... to be my awful wedded husband

Oh you is a bad elf, Dobby!

We sat like that for a long while, and when we stood up, all my sad things were in boxes, and Beck was my father.

There are readers who want every point to be clearly and unambiguously set forth, and there are those who want to pry ideas and meanings out for themselves.

The more you have, the more you have that needs fixing.

Usage is the best language teacher.

The societal pursuit of high self-esteem for everyone may literally end up doing considerable harm.

I guess some things never change.