other people maay be there to help us, teach us, guide us aolng our path, But the lesson to be learned is always ours

Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.

A codependent person is one who has let another person's behavior affect him or her and who is obsessed with controlling that person's behavior.

It's so easy to look around and notice what's wrong. It takes practice to see what's right.

Live your life from your heart. Share from your heart. And your story will touch and heal people's souls.

Remember to be kind. Remember to be loving. Remember to feel all your feelings and to take care of yourself. But most of all, remember to be happy.

The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written. We can help write that story by setting goals.

Today I will simply accept. I will relinquish the need to be in resistance to myself and my environment in any way. I will move forward in joy by accepting where I am right now.

If somebody rejects you or your choices, you are still real, and you are still worth every bit as much as you would be if you had not been rejected.

Relax, you're on a journey of discovery. Let life reveal itself to you.

The surest way to make ourselves crazy is to get involved in other people's business, and the quickest way to become sane and happy is to tend to our own affairs.

Someone who is determinedly trying to show God how good he or she is is likely to become an insufferable prig.

The time to repair the roof is when the sun is sh

I know only enough of God to want to worship him, by any means ready to hand.

I initially felt shy about doing painting because I wasn't a professional painter. I almost felt like I didn't deserve to paint. But I have gradually adopted a different kind of attitude about this.

Gideon touched her cheek, lightly, with the tips of his fingers. “Did you know your name means ‘wisdom’? It was very well-given.

Social change involves helping people see new options for making life wonderful that are less costly to get needs met.

The sheer volumes of songs have come from the hours of cold and darkness that one spends inside with the lights on.

I hated my whole childhood, hated it, hated it, hated it. There was no place for me.

Religion lies in being and becoming, in realization.

...lest too light winning make the prize light.