Grant me the wisdom to know when to keep trying and when to stop wasting time, the patience to keep going with the 1st, and the courage & serenity to let go of the 2nd.

Our true nature is one of innocence and freedom to choose how we live. We need to be brave enough not to give that away. Don't give up on your right to, and sense of, TRUTH, Justice, and GRACE.

Everything has its opposite within it.Love can be very destructive if you mishandle it.Pain can help you find ways to grow and change.Fear can eventually lead you to a path of hope.

When we make judgements we're inevitably acting on limited knowledge, isn't it best to ask if we seek to understand, or simply let them be?

Why be crying, fearful, lonely, when you have the whole universe? Be still, listen to your heart, breathe, and know you need nothing.

If people don't appreciate your REAL self it's hard to be with them, but you only find TRUE friends by SHOWING that self & TRUSTING.

...notice all the many beautiful things, nature, your own soul, stuff other people do.... like help out, smile, create, dance...

There are some great positive quotes out there that I can't quite share as I wonder how a victim in a war torn country could be expected to see from their perspective?

The greatest things to have can't be possessed, they exist within yet can be shared, like freedom, love, trust, integrity, fun, dreams, creativity, wisdom, peace.

When you truly sing, you sing yourself free. When you truly dance, you dance yourself free. When you walk in the mountains or swim in the sea, again, you set yourself free.

We can't fix, only support each other to process, manage, transform, make life-journeys in own way.

I had two or three faced people, I don't like the feature that they are have a lot of faces, what's bad?You never know which face they are using!

You gotta know when to be lazy. Done correctly, it's an art form that benefits everyone.

Style is the hallmark of a temperament stamped upon the material at hand.

You start at the end, and then go back and write and go that way. Not everyone does, but I do. Some people just sit down at the page and start off. I start from what happened, including the why.

Open the fridge and put My heart on a plate. I'm just as you left me, and I taste even better leftover.

Every nation thinks its own madness normal and requisite; more passion and more fancy it calls folly, less it calls imbecility.

Criticism is the forerunner of divorce, the cultivator of rebellion, sometimes an agent that leads to failure.

I've been here 21 years, and I literally did walk up and down Music Row trying to break into the business. I felt very free to go into any publishing company.

He was his own leftover, the spat-out scrag. He was what his brain could make nothing of.

There is no effort without error or shortcoming.