When you stop living your life based on what others think of you real life begins. At that moment, you will finally see the door of self acceptance opened.

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.

If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you're allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind.

There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book or simply close it.

A true gentleman is one that apologizes anyways, even though he has not offended a lady intentionally. He is in a class all of his own because he knows the value of a woman's heart.

A best friend is the only one that walks into your life when the world has walked out.

The most confused you will ever get is when you try to convince your heart and spirit of something your mind knows is a lie.

When you loved someone and had to let them go, there will always be that small part of yourself that whispers, "What was it that you wanted and why didn't you fight for it?

The most introspective of souls are often those that have been hurt the most.

When someone you love says goodbye you can stare long and hard at the door they closed and forget to see all the doors God has open in front of you.

If he can't handle you at your worst then he does not deserve you at your best. Real love means seeing beyond the words spoken out of pain, and instead seeing a person's soul.

She probably fell asleep and was washed away by the tortoise waves!”-Arista

Who shall deliver us from the sin of the flesh? GOD alone, the Divine Being.

Love's core purpose is to always inspire us to become more wholesomely ourselves because of love's experience.

Give them pleasure - the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.

We are not special. We are not crap or trash, either. We just are. We just are, and what happens just happens.

Fear of change perplexes monarchs.

Meg, don't you think you'd make a better adjustment to life if you faced facts?" I do face facts," Meg said. They're lots easier to face than people, I can tell you.

Joy is not like happiness, unhappiness. It is singular.

The power of the Holy Spirit cannot be successfully duplicated. If a person is supernaturally changed and given a love for God's glory, God did it.

I just really wanted to be myself. I wanted to be sassy, the attitude, all these things that I am.