Once you show someone your true colors it is impossible to paint over them.

A genuine smile is one of the world’s rarest treasures.

A fish that is afraid of drowning in a river is ignorant of its gifts.

A diamond earns its sparkle from the pressure it endures.

It is in the storm, not the calm, that a rainbow is born.

A determined seed cannot be hidden from the world, not even by dirt.

Calm skies don't make skillful eagles.

If you cry in the rain, only the sky will see your tears.

Birds keep singing beautiful songs, even if they have no audience.

Today's storms help you appreciate tomorrow’s sunshine.

Train the ears to hear more, the eyes to see more, the hands to do more, the feet to accomplish more, the mind to think more, the heart to feel more, and the soul to love more.

He leans forward and presses a kiss to my cheek. It's so romantic and soft. I want to capture it in a mason jar and preserve it for later.

Autumn. The grace in letting dead things fall.

My memory about names and places now is dreadful. But lines, I can remember.

And thoughts of no other man but you could possibly get through the picket lines to enter into my mind.

You've got yoga, I've got beer. You got overpriced, I got weird.

I think that people vibe off your energy and I'm a pretty mellow person.

History could hover, like a faint perfume or a memory stamped on the back of one's eyelids.

Your world will follow your idea about yourself.

I owe everything to the army.

It was not seen that woman's place was in the home until she began to go out of it; the statement was a reply to an unspoken challenge, it was attempted resistance to irresistible change.