Groom yourself and your life like a shrub. Trim off the edges and you'll be stronger in the broken places. Embrace the new growth and blossom at the tips.

Tree trunks are composed of layers of growth. Meaningful expressions are composed of layers of words. Say something meaningful.

Understanding” is a word that I cherish. Understanding is what helps us to love before we judge. Understanding helps us to know more of ourselves and do the same to others.

When we seek to understand what makes each of us different before we seek to be understood, we learn. Understanding fosters mutual respect for one another.

People of God are always people who care about other people and it always comes at some cost.

Divisions in mankind are unnatural. They are man made.

When you see something wrong and fail to do anything about it, even in the smallest effort, you accept the wrong.

An apology is the superglue of life! It can repair just about anything!!

A lover goes toward his beloved as enthusiastically as a schoolboy leaving his books, but when he leaves his girlfriend, he feels as miserable as the schoolboy on his way to school. (Act 2, scene 2)

Pain is the hammer of the Gods to break a dead resistance in the mortal's heart

This world is all a fleeting show For man's illusion given The smiles of joy the tears of woe Deceitful shine deceitful flow - There's nothing true but Heaven.

When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell. That is why we dread children, even if we love them, they show us the state of our decay.

Man is not himself only...He is all that he sees; all that flows to him from a thousand sources...He is the land, the lift of its mountain lines, the reach of its valleys.

Love is not materialistic. It's intangible yet somehow an undeniable feeling. You know it when you have it. I have lots of love in my life and I am blessed.

Go out of your way to talk optimistically about everything.

I think we keep these moments of rejection and acceptance very close. I think we carry them always, like cracked shells from which a part of us once hatched.

If one is free at heart, no man-made chains can bind one to servitude.