Sometimes the difference between success and failure is simply the degree to which you crave one over the other.

Music is my enchanter, the seducer of my emotions, the fire and ice that moves me.

I survive on moments of make-believe happiness.

Imagine fantasy and pretend as neither fantastical nor pretended.....and then believe it.

Family gathersto share good noise and good food.Gratitude abounds.

It is an incapacitating emotion one feels upon hearing the whispered words "I still love you" after deeply hurting that soul. Forgiveness isn't weakness.It is power.

Reality is a background so painted over by our own perceptions that every eye sees the world differently.

Theories look great on paper until reality scribbles all over the page.

Dreams become reality once the dreamer goes beyond imagining and acts them out.

I can and will improve the world.I will smile, show kindness, and be grateful.I refuse to be unhappy.

Giddy is a grin and giggles and that glint of goofiness in your gaze.

We spend the first half of our lives making ourselves sick, and the second half of our lives trying to make ourselves un-sick.” – Kevin W. Reese

I was one of those daughters who saw my mother as my enemy when I was a teen.

Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.

The great virtue of parents is a great dowry.

I have had some bad shooting games but that doesn't stop me from getting the ball to my teammates

I'd be a dog, a monkey, or a bear, or anything but that vain animal who is so proud of being rational.

If Raymond Chandler came from the South, his name would be Ace Atkins.

We tend to treat our knowledge as personal property to be protected and defended. It is an ornament that allows us to rise in the pecking order. [...] We take what we know a little too seriously.

Wherever that man went, he went gratefully.

Time is light, time is dark. You either dance, or you fall.