Next time someone tells you to smile for the camera, & you don’t feel like it—say no, thanks. Don’t fake your way into a happy-seeming life. Open vulnerable honesty is true positivity.

You are not my dream girl.You are this earth. You are not a fantasy: you are my love. And love is friendship lit by a wooden match with a white tip on its red tip. I am your match, and you are mine.

I would like to say that your beauty made it difficult to breathe.

Defeated? Learn from it. Move forward. You're stronger now. Reach out for help. No shame, only learning. Seek out those you can learn from.

Want to enjoy an restful day? Wake up, turn your phone on, meditate, look at the sky—then toss your phone into the bushes.

Want to get more done? Keep meditation #1 on your to-do list.

Meditate five minutes each morning and see it wake up your entire life.

True efficiency is taking some time to be fully first thing in the morning. Rushing isn’t always efficient.

I would like to care more about you than about my feelings for you.

The best way to get through any challenge is to step back, look up at the sky, breathe deeply in and out, smile if you have to…then dive in.

Love is only available to those willing to be continually brave in weakness.

Every child is born as angel.

It is feeling and not reasoning that drives one to prayer.' -Emma to Charles

...then we went skinny dippin' and did things that frighten the fish...Character, Shelby Eatonton, from the movie, Steel Magnolias.

If it makes you cry, it goes in the show.

What was wonderful about childhood is that anything in it was a wonder. It was not merely a world full of miracles; it was a miraculous world.

Philosophizing means, then, to ascend from public dogma to essentially private knowledge.

Women are still in emotional bondage as long as we need to worry that we might have to make a choice between being heard and being loved.

Most obstacles are inspiration.

The scandal of the world is what makes the offence; it is not sinful to sin in silence.