When you get knocked down, don't stay down; get back up again. Nothing good is going to happen as long as you're down on yourself.

Don't waste your energy trying to convince people to understand you. Your time is too valuable to try to prove yourself to people.

I don't have to figure out how God is going to solve my problem. I don't have to understand how He's going to bring it to pass. That's His responsibility. My job is to simply believe that He will.

Difficult times don't come your way just so you can survive them; God uses these times in your life to form and refine you.

Never put a question mark where God has put a period. When something is over and done, let it go and move on to the next chapter of your life.

Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life.

The more you talk about negative things in your life, the more you call them in. Speak victory not defeat.

Learn to trust His timing. Don't get in a hurry; don't grow impatient; don't try to force doors open. Don't try to make things happen in your own strength. Let God do it His way.

There are people in your path just so you can be a blessing to them. Anytime you do good for others, you are sowing a seed for God to be good to you.

You have to accept the fact that some people are never going to be for you. Treat them with respect, but you don’t need their approval to fulfill your destiny.

Wake up every morning with a thankful attitude. Expect something good to happen in your life today.

follow your heart! (sppotedleafs motto)

It is love, the teeth told him, that resurrects life from death. Leave us here. Turn your head to the living.

The thing to remember about a kick is you go for his twigs and berries" ~Declan~

Making Saudi Arabia a world judge on women's rights and religious freedom would be like naming a pyromaniac as the town fire chief.

There is something magical in seeing what you can do, what texture and tone and colour you can produce merely with a pen point and a bottle of ink.

If you want to live a top shelf life then you need to stand on the books you have read. Never stop learning, never stop growing.

Take care of your ears, they're everything!

Trent and Ellasbeth did the nasty? Ewwww!

We live and learn, or, perhaps more importantly we learn and live.

People who build hope into their own lives and who share hope with others become powerful people.