“Transitional periods can be painful, but they are crucial for your growth. Please allow this process to take you where you need to be.”

If your best efforts bring less than desirable results because your mental health is suffering, I hope you know you are still worthy and doing all that you can. You deserve to applaud yourself.

So inspired by what it means to be a woman of substance. A woman of great poise and assertiveness.

I still have time to do everything I intend on doing and becoming and I’m certainly not running out of time.

Only you know how far you’ve truly come. Please don’t ever let that go unnoticed.

I try to focus on the fact that whatever I’m feeling right now, no matter how intense, painful and distressing; is temporary.

I’ve spent a lot of time holding onto things and people that brought me misery because I was afraid of the void that may be there once I let go. I know now my voids were just as illusionary as the fear and insecurities that created them.

Every step I’ve taken has rewarded me with a lesson and every single setback and disruption has straightened out in a manner that befits me.

I promise you are under no obligation to have it all together all the time.

I know my truths. I know exactly why I am the way I am and I’m secure with it. There’s not a single soul that can ever shame or guilt trip me into making me feel and think otherwise.

I have found that confiding in someone who loves you unconditionally to be extremely healing. A safe place to share and release.

There’s shift happening. You are moving through something; which explains why you have been slower and more withdrawn than usual.

Stop giving anger power in your life.

I want virtue, honesty, love and compassion. From myself and for myself.

Here to remind you that slow healing is still healing. Don’t be too hard on yourself.

Strong woman still need their hands held.

The older I get, the less I care for superficial joys and cheap displays of nothingness. If it’s not meaningful and of substance, I don’t want it.

There’s nothing more painful than your abdomen growling.

Climate change is directly related to the growth of terrorism.

You’re saying we lost the powers of magic because we grew lazy.

We need others. We need others to love and we need to be loved by them. There is no doubt that without it, we too like the infant left alone, would cease to grow, cease to develop, choose madness, and even death.

The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn and feel and change and grow and love and live.

Billionaires are seeing tremendous growth in their wealth. But working families are living in more desperation than at any time since the Great Depression.

My working and personal relationship with President Obama is marked by growing trust.

The growing economic potential of India and Russia is mutually complementary in many respects.