Skill is the bridge between success and great success.

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.

Your decisions are influenced by your beliefs, philosophy, wisdom, environment, relationships, goals or dreams and state of mind.

It's not the beauty of a person you should admire. It is the purity of heart that deserves your admiration.

There is love in everything, and when we really live and view life with an open heart (and live in our truth), the light illuminates the way.

How does the moon feel as it sees the ocean lap at your shores? The eternal pain of knowing you are there but forever out of reach...

The moment you think you know something inside out, is the moment you stop listening. That's when you go backwards faster than you progressed

Her screams spiraled up into the night air

A good lover will do that, see something worthwhile in you that you never knew was there. And when there's something you don't like to see in yourself a good lover won't see it either.

In fact one frequently seemed to gather all sorts of similar information about subjects one had less than profound interest in.

Any joy, creativity or wisdom our next moment brings will ensue from the way we live our present one.

Imagination comes in after we have experience.