You need to see things, REALLY see them, feel them, live them, so you know what’s big and what’s little, what matters and what to put aside.

Life's a climb. But the view is great.

I probably have an earlier curfew than anyone. My mom wants to keep me really safe and my dad's not overly protective, but he's a dad no matter what.

When Life Puts You in Tough Situations, Don't Say 'Why Me', Say 'Try Me'

Anyone that hates on you is always below you, because they're just jealous of what you have.

If you believe in yourself anything is possible.

Always look forward and try to push pass the negativity. I think everyone's beautiful and they deserve to be happy no matter what.

The greatest opportunities in life come with fear and risk.

You can't blame me for who I am.

Remember that only God can judge us; forget the haters, because Somebody loves you.

It is important to ask yourself why you’re doing what you’re doing and what purpose it serves in the big picture.

My life's a tangle of past and present, like two separate puzzles with their pieces tumbled together. Nothing fits.

I know I can't change the past. Not my mistakes or the mistakes of others. But I can begin by changing me.

Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production.

Unfortunately complaining is one thing Eeyores are not afraid to do. They grudgingly carry their thimbles to the Fountain of Life, then mumble and grumble that they weren't given enough.

Moreover, statistics can be deceiving: the growth of jobs in the US in the 90s was due to many part-time jobs, with no benefits and generally low pay.

And in the afternoon they entered a land - but such a land! A land hung in mourning, darkened by gigantic cypresses, submerged; a land of reptiles, silence, shadow, decay.

Society is composed of slow Christians and wide-awake sinners.

Generosity and gratitude are inseparably linked.

Anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same the whole world over-except when they are different.

If I'm going to take my clothes off I figured I might as well do it for something that I'm directing myself since I had complete control of the edit.