Evaluating the benefits and drawbacks of any relationship is your responsibility. You do not have to passively accept what is brought to you. You can choose.

Flexibility requires an open mind and a welcoming of new alternatives.

Nourishing yourself in a way that helps you blossom in the direction you want to go is attainable, and you are worth the effort.

You don't have to be like anyone else. You just need to learn more about your own creative self and start blooming.

Encourage, lift and strengthen one another. For the positive energy spread to one will be felt by us all. For we are connected, one and all.

Lighten up on yourself. No one is perfect. Gently accept your humanness.

Gentleness towards self and others makes life a little lighter.

Recognizing that you are not where you want to be is a starting point to begin changing your life.

You will be your best self when you take time to understand what you really need, feel and want.

Make a pledge to yourself right now, to declare that you are worth your time and energy.

You will have fewer regrets in life if you start focusing and taking responsiblity for where you are and where you want to be.

When we make the unfamiliar familiar, make the unknown known, make the uncomfortable comfortable, and believe the unbelievable, we can then expect the unexpected.

When my income exceeds my outgo, my upkeep will be downright easy.

He is happiest be he king or peasant who finds peace in his home.

George Orwell once blamed the demise of the English language on politics. It's quite possible he never read a prospectus.

I am still a learner, not a teacher, feeding somewhat omnivorously, browsing both stalk & leaves

Read about the history of the place that we live in and stop letting corporate news tell lies to your children

Every day Catholics prove that you can be a good Catholic and a good Democrat and have a different position from the Church on abortion.

I love collaboration of all kinds, and I love the way that collaboration pulls me into directions I wouldn't go in if I was working on my own.

I'd always maintained an image so that people wouldn't approach me.

For even bad poetry has relevance for what it does not say for what it leaves out.