The more you try to control something, the more it controls you. Free yourself, and let things take their own natural course.

It all begins and ends in your mind. What you give power to, has power over you, if you allow it.

Never underestimate your own strength. You were born for a purpose and are blessed with the power to achieve it.

A moment of anger can destroy a lifetime of work, whereas a moment of love can break barriers that took a lifetime to build.

You cannot grow unless you are willing to change. You will never improve yourself if you cling to what used to be.

One day you will realize that material things mean nothing. All that matters is the well being of the people in your life.

Listen to your own voice, your own soul. Too many people listen to the noise of the world, instead of themselves.

It all begins with you. If you do not take care of yourself, you will not be strong enough to take care of anything in life.

All things pass and pain is temporary. It comes to teach a lesson and when the lesson is understood it disappears into the night.

The answers you seek never come when the mind is busy, they come when the mind is still, when silence speaks loudest.

The day you stop worrying will be the first day of your new life; anxiety takes you in circles, trust in yourself and become free.

To this day, I can never shake the connection between this boy, Peeta Mellark, and the bread that gave me hope, and the dandelion that reminded me that I was not doomed.

Never let fear control you, let faith take control.

Ask the person who found you about what kind of people she was looking for before meeting you, as she may not know that she has found one of them already.

What am I?" she asked ..."You are mine, " he answered roughly, his forehead still on hers.

College wasn't like the real world. In the real world people dropped names based on their renown. In college, people dropped names based on their obscurity.

[Sometimes I] put on a ski mask and dress in old clothes, go out on the streets and beg for quarters.

Once a pallid Vestal Doubted truth in blue; Listed red in ruin, Harried every hue; Barricaded vision, Garbed herself in sighs; Ridiculed the birthmarks Of the butterflies.

It takes a great deal of Christianity to wipe out uncivilized Eastern instincts, such as falling in love at first sight.

When I was in high school, I was really into string theory and superstring theory and read 'Scientific American.' It's fascinating.

Consume my heart away, sick with desire And fastened to a dying animal It knows not what it is, and gather me Into the artifice of eternity.