Win or lose, good or bad, the experience will change you.

Music is my enchanter, the seducer of my emotions, the fire and ice that moves me.

I survive on moments of make-believe happiness.

Imagine fantasy and pretend as neither fantastical nor pretended.....and then believe it.

Family gathersto share good noise and good food.Gratitude abounds.

It is an incapacitating emotion one feels upon hearing the whispered words "I still love you" after deeply hurting that soul. Forgiveness isn't weakness.It is power.

Reality is a background so painted over by our own perceptions that every eye sees the world differently.

Theories look great on paper until reality scribbles all over the page.

Dreams become reality once the dreamer goes beyond imagining and acts them out.

I can and will improve the world.I will smile, show kindness, and be grateful.I refuse to be unhappy.

Giddy is a grin and giggles and that glint of goofiness in your gaze.

Just follow my lead, ’ I said. ‘It’ll be fun.’‘Please, ’ Sam begged, ‘don’t let those words be carved on my tombstone.

My heart is too thoroughly dried to be broken in a hurry, and I mean to live as long as I can.

I have never met the man I could despair of after discerning what lies in me apart from the grace of God.

There was never any question that I would go to college, that I would travel, that I would go to the theater early and often.

Successful people recognize crisis as a time for change - from lesser to greater, smaller to bigger.

A boy can be two, three, four potential people, but a man is only one. He murders the others.

Let yourselves be led by the Holy Spirit, with freedom and, please, do not cage the Holy Spirit

I think part of maturity is knowing who you are.

Whenever I pick up a jacket and it's heavy, I think, 'Oh, I don't want to wear that.'

When you put so much effort to forget someone, the effort itself becomes a memory. Then you have to forget the forgetting, and that too is memorable.