Through each crisis in my life, with acceptance and hope, in a single defining moment, I finally gained the courage to do things differently.

I can’t cure anyone. I can’t guarantee they will heal. I can only tell them my story, remind them that they are not alone in their journey and offer a glimmer of hope for healing.

Time heals even the deepest wounds.

Laughter lightens my heart and therefore heals my soul as well.

We are exquisite souls housed in physical bodies.

Extreme emotional pain has a profound effect on the body. I witnessed my already frail body become even more toxic and plundered.

Forgiveness enables me to walk away from that pain, the loneliness and suffering.

I’m not ‘different’ from anyone else. Crises and tough emotional periods are the grit around which my inner self has been formed. Some, I have come through with more grace than others.

I did the only thing I knew how to do: I built my own walls of silence to disguise my desperation and what later came to be recognized and diagnosed as depression.

I thought by masking the depression with silence, the feelings might disappear.

As a sufferer of depression for many years, I know the importance of trying to find positive experiences in each day, no matter how small.

There is no limit of what you can or don't do! as the word itself gives you the strength to survive called friendship..

I don't care what the haters and naysayers say. If they make jokes about me, I'll laugh because they'll probably be funny.

I feel bad sometimes because I secretly hope New Orleans gets nailed again.

The message we give our bodies - one of irritation or acceptance - is the message to which our bodies will answer.

Richard Strauss--Old Home Week in Gomorrah

The first kiss is stolen by the man; the last is begged by the woman.

Life's a dance you learn as you go.

I eat the same foods almost every day. I have my favorites like Filipino beef broth, chicken soup with lots and lots of rice.

To repeat, communitarians maintain that we are constituted as persons by our particular obligations, and therefore those obligations cannot be a matter of choice.

By God, I could make myself bring her that economically halved grapefruit, that sugarless breakfast.