You have to know yourself enough to be able to choose friends that you will be compatible with.

Pain strengthens and failure teaches us the proper way to do things.

We are who we are, but we know who we are through our response to the changing world.

Some say they love you, but some actually "do" the loving. These are the ones that truly love you, because love is seen in actions.

It's okay for someone to tell me who they think I am, but it's not okay when they try to impose that idea on me.

Hearts everywhere bear scars of one form of hurt or the other, and it is necessary to keep this in mind when trying to understand why a person is the way he or she is.

It is what you do about the fear you feel that sets you apart, to be a coward or a courageous person.

What is their real problem? Is it the fear or is it what they do after feeling it?

By taking control of the present, you are choosing to alter the past you are making for yourself, and your future too.

People usually gossip about people they don't quite understand, are jealous of, or have other negative feelings for.

Accept loyalty gratefully, and accept betrayal with a smile, knowing that it teaches you life lessons.

For peace, look not outside but inside.

The majority are satisfied living within the idea of the reality instead of the reality of the idea.

Just because we want makes ourself happy, it doesn't meant we must cheating to others . remember, "Feeling" .

You can't build a great building on a weak foundation. You must have a solid foundation if you're going to have a strong superstructure.

I was always making up rhymes. But I never thought that poetry would become my life.

My biggest dream from the beginning - besides Evanescence - is scoring film and writing music for film.

A fool is a person who knows the difference between right and wrong, and chooses to do wrong.

If I could act like This was my real life, And not some cage where I've been placed, Well then, I could tell you The truth like I used to And not be afraid of sounding fake.

Strangely, I always have a lot of cut scenes. I keep writing shorter and shorter scripts, thinking that this time, I'll get all my scenes in.

Watch the thought and its ways with care, and let it spring from love born out of concern for all beings.