We hurt ourselves not by what we ask for, but what we settle for.

Everyone and everything that shows up in our life is a reflection of something that is happening inside of us.

Be happy with what you have. Be excited about what you want.

Do not wait until the conditions are perfect to begin. Beginning makes the conditions perfect.

Guilt: punishing yourself before God doesn't.

Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts.

Everything will line up perfectly when knowing and living the truth becomes more important than looking good.

Happy people do not demand a lot from the world because their happiness proceeds from a place deeper than the world can touch.

Personal growth is not a matter of learning new information but of unlearning old limits.

The fire of purpose easily melts the icicles of obstacles.

To grow, you must be willing to let your present and future be totally unlike your past. Your history is not your destiny.

In the slaughterhouse of love, they kill only the best, none of the weak or deformed. Don't run away from this dying. Whoever's not killed for love is dead meat.

The trouble with me, he thought unhappily, is that I have been about the world long enough to know that God's plans for us, however infallibly good, may not take the form we expect and demand.

To find the rainbow and life’s incredible beauties, learn to play with adversity.

Doctrine once sown strikes deep its root, and respect for antiquity influences all men.

There's always tomorrow and it always gets better.

We went online to surrogacy agencies. We interviewed lots of people - and I have to say, with all due respect, some of them were freaks. I was very leery of the process the whole way through.

Titles of honour are like the impressions on coin; — which add no value to gold and silver, but only render brass current.

Pickle jars are just pickle jars, and pickles are just pickles.

Soul-directed events defy logic and ridicule reason.

I've been acting for many years, and the more you do, the more confidence you get about "this is my career and this is what I'm going to be doing."