I am happy not because I am without pain, but because I know I am not that pain.

Once trust is built, distance cannot kill it. Time and space alone cannot destroy authentic connection.

The history of your happiness is the history of your feeling connected.

To know yourself, you must first sacrifice the illusion that already you do.

A soul mate is not found. A soul mate is recognized.

Only love that continues to flow in the face of anger, blame, and indifference can be called love. All else is simply a transaction.

If you do not respect your own wishes, no one else will. You will simply attract people who disrespect you as much as you do.

The important thing is for me to feel love towards my fellow human beings—and sometimes, that has to be at a distance.

Self-love is essential. Until you can learn how to feel loved in an empty room, you will not feel loved for very long in any other room.

There is no quick fix-all procedure to heal your insecurities. Like any relationship, the relationship with yourself must be built and re-built one kind, loving conversation at a time.

Have the courage to love yourself like you always wished someone would.

Let me feel how thy pulses beat.

True repentence is to depart from evil. A return to God, seeking his grace for power to obey him.

Coal mines, like a hard life, have seen the best diamonds of innovation, more than any jewel factory.

Today is today. But there are many tomorrows

It's hard to find success and it's hard to find hit movies or hit TV shows and to stay relevant. I think it's a very difficult thing for actors, because a lot of us get lost, frankly.

The internet kind of feels like happiness sometimes, however. It feels like stimulation.

I have a body and I have a soul. And my body belongs to the faith - in fact, the church - into which it was born, the Methodist Church.

A gigantic tortoise with a jewel-encrusted shell was glittering near the window.

If brevity is the soul of wit then brevity and levity are the whole of it.

Work and life are an interconnected adventure, guided by the heart, winged with spirit, and nourished by the soul.