We cannot fully heal if we cannot experience gratitude on a daily basis.

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.

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.

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.

I have learned through repeated experiences that in order to heal, I MUST forgive. The forgiveness is not for the transgressor. The forgiveness is for ME.

Forgiveness does not mean I approve of or condone what transpired.

When I could find something to laugh about for 30 minutes, my grief lightened just enough to make the day bearable.

When we have loved, that loving part is the best part of any and every day.

if they put an iron circle around your neck I will bite it away

The disciplined Christian will be very careful what sort of counsel he seeks from others. Counsel that contradicts the written Word is ungodly counsel. Blessed is the man that walketh not in that.

In '73 I photographed the cannibals in New Guinea. They treated me OK but they didn't make you feel relaxed... I managed to escape unscathed though, I'm pretty good at that.

If you can't eat it, can't sleep under it, can't wear it or make something from it, it's not worth anything.

Players will never do more than you demand.

You mine your own past in order to get to know yourself.

Try to understand long before you move to judgment.

Asking science to explain life and vital matters is equivalent to asking a grammarian to explain poetry.

I will attack no matter what and win the war!

Happiness is to be found along the way, not at the end of the road, for then the journey is over and it is too late.