It is in the coldest months that hugs linger snug, and they warm the soul the most.

Music is my enchanter, the seducer of my emotions, the fire and ice that moves me.

I survive on moments of make-believe happiness.

Imagine fantasy and pretend as neither fantastical nor pretended.....and then believe it.

Family gathersto share good noise and good food.Gratitude abounds.

It is an incapacitating emotion one feels upon hearing the whispered words "I still love you" after deeply hurting that soul. Forgiveness isn't weakness.It is power.

Reality is a background so painted over by our own perceptions that every eye sees the world differently.

Theories look great on paper until reality scribbles all over the page.

Dreams become reality once the dreamer goes beyond imagining and acts them out.

I can and will improve the world.I will smile, show kindness, and be grateful.I refuse to be unhappy.

Giddy is a grin and giggles and that glint of goofiness in your gaze.

O judgment! thou are fled to brutish beasts And men have lost their reason!

I'm grateful to God for His bountiful gifts... He gave me courage and faith in myself.

When you work hard, good things happen

I love to play, I love to dance, I love to party . . . I'm a liver. I think what I need to learn is how to find the calmness, the centeredness.

In science there is only physics; all the rest is stamp collecting.

But God never seems capable of moderation

Having asked God for forgiveness, accept release, then truly forgive yourself and turn your back definitely on the matter.

In the house of poetry nothing endures that is not written with blood to be heard with blood.

Dear to girls' hearts is their own beauty.

When once you consider an action, do not let anything dissuade you. Consult your heart, not others, and then follow its dictates.