You have to fight unhappiness like a dragon with fire and breathe.

Oh, I love hugging. I wish I was an octopus, so I could hug 10 people at a time!

Life is very interesting... in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths.

I never regret anything. Because every little detail of your life is what made you into who you are in the end.

When I lay my head on the pillow at night I can say I was a decent person today. That's when I feel beautiful.

I pray to be like the ocean, with soft currents, maybe waves at times. More and more, I want the consistency rather than the highs and the lows.

There's something liberating about not pretending. Dare to embarrass yourself. Risk.

I'm a real stay-at-home mom. I'm really hands-on. Everything else became secondary.

I think happiness is what makes you pretty.

Daisies are like sunshine to the ground.

I've always loved butterflies, because they remind us that it's never too late to transform ourselves.

The beauty of being alive is that each day you are given another chance to correct what you did wrong and improve on what you can do right.

One should become free of mistakes so that there will be no superior over him.

From attraction and affectionCover of perfectionFailure beyond texture to a painful lessonEverything that was from the start wasn't from the heart

He wanted more, as did I, but we still had a ways to go. I wasn’t a tease and my demands seemed pretty reasonable: always be honest and try not to eat me. ~ Sam, Living Violet

Great leaders don't just know the sweet spots of their people. They tap into and unchain the infinite potential imprisoned within their people...

The test of pleasure is the memory it leaves behind. (Die Probe Eines Genusses ist Seine Erinnerung.)

He who has not faith in others shall find no faith in them.

I lived in town until I was eight and then I moved nearer the farmland, so I had a mixture.

And it was only a week later that I realized a close up of Steve McQueen was worth the greatest landscape you could find.

If a woman writes about a domestic situation, everyone automatically assumes that it's about her.