Keep in mind that the reason you know you can be good to others is only because you've taken strides to be better for and to yourself.

The heart is resilient and forgiving, it is the mind that causes us stress.

these "sometimey" feelings are welcomed to stay... reminiscent of ying and yang: they need eachother to help me get through the good & bad days

I have been hurt so bad and I still love so hard, I admire my heart for that.

There is no love without respect.There isn't much truth if spoken without genuine honesty.

Not in My Backyard (NIMBY) does not work. Opiate addicts live in our communities and in our families & they work in our businesses.

[Judith Warner:] Our neurotic quest to perfect the mechanics of mothering can be interpreted as an effort to do on an individual level what we’ve stopped trying to do on a society-wide one.

Parents can only do what they think is best, with the experience they have. The learning curve for every parent is that there's a limit to how much they can shield children from.

True faith is never found alone; it is accompanied by expectation.

The next big decision [of Donald Trump], chief of staff. And the two names talked about the most, Steve Bannon, Reince Priebus. Both allies, but they send quite a different message.

We can distance ourselves from the reality of what we did through storytelling.

People ask me why I wear veils. I reply, I am mourning. Mourning what? Well I figure something shitty must be going on somewhere.

First, a man is created in his own image, and only afterwards in the image of God.

When in doubt, do without.

Your reader is at least as bright as you are