It seems totally unfair that the way we look matters so much. I mean, why can't we just get over this gotta-be-thin-and-beautiful thing? Why can't we just accept ourselves and others for what we are?

Girls can be so petty and jealous. I swear they're worse than guys sometimes. Except they're all quiet about it. They sugarcoat it or else they talk behind each other's backs. It's seriously twisted.

I mean all this focus on how we look on the outside. It's just all wrong

God planned for our lives to connect. Let's make sure we keep it that way.

A book is kind of like a river; I simply jump in and start swimming.

It takes a good habit to replace a bad habit.

Shut off the internal bashing.

I grew up in a difficult environment, but I became a Christian as a teen. My mom and my sister soon became Christians also.

Being a teenager these days is not for the faint of heart.

New life, new hope, new joy will start when this is given from the heart.

Sometimes we have to let our dreams go in order to allow God to bring them back to us - in his way and his timing.

She felt trapped, but she didn't have to. The world is wide open and ready, waiting for us to escape this bubble and join it.

The essential respect is the one in your own heart for yourself.

My caregiver mantra is to remember: the only control you have is over the changes you choose to make.

As the world is wearie of me so am I of it.

Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came to a no less definite end in the theories of Karl Marx.

Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.

Ironically, xenophobic nationalists are utilizing the benefits of globalization.

Not a visible enthusiasm but a hidden one, an excitement burning with a cold flame.

There are more martyrs to nonsense than truth, truth preferring missionaries.

You have to calendar time for yourself even if you have no idea what youre going to do with it.