Smart means having intellectual humility rather than high cognitive ability.

ON LIVING LIFE WISELY - To make the right choices, you have to be at peace with yourself.

Sometimes, all you need is someone who will listen. It is fortune enough to have people around who hear you & not judge you.

LIFE’S SOFT EDGES‘Tis a truth I will confess that we ofttimes find soft edges –to such a degree, our livesare well manifestof people’s kindliness.

Every person is an entrance to another world.

HIDEAWAYPreserve thatsecret, homey spotin your heart, as sanctuary where dreams may be softly tended, and revived.

Come discover how astonishingit is to unravel your own blossoming.

The world is abounding with beauty. You are a demonstration of this.

INDIVIDUALITYI will never cease to talk in riddles, I will never try to feel different.I may be unusual for them, but that’s alright with me.

MORNINGTIDEThe wonderful works of morningtidebring the sight of luminous whiteness, a breathing whimsyamong wind-tossed sprigs of green.

Soft sunlight tall treeswoodsmoke impressions summery cuestossed onthis dainty patch of my recluse.~ Poem Title VERS LIBÉRÉ, Tara Estacaan

Diets are essentially training courses in how to feel fat and feel like a failure.

I love my own kind—womankind.

Anger kills logical thinking and logical thinking kills anger....the choice is yours

What began with exuberance and passion always ended with terse accusations and hateful words, with rage and weeping fits.

No way exists in the present to accurately determine the future effect of the least of our actions.

In the morning when I rise give me Jesus.

Freedom's soil hath only place For a free and fearless race!

This is the divine moment when we can hold the fairest blossom of spring in one hand and the sweetest flowers of early summer in the other.

A Confucian or Jewish love of learning would gain minorities far more than any affirmative action laws we might pass.

Hillary Clinton represents staunch feminists, she represents the new era of feminists.