“We do not win external wars by denying internal battles.”

Get rid of the idea that your healing is tied to someone else’s apology.

Rest now, dear heart, let joy find you unexpected places.

Cold hearts cannot serve warm love.

There is pain here, but there is also power.

Teach boys that manhood is not determined by how often they hold back their tears.

This is not the season to shrink ourselves for anyone.

If peace is a priority, manage what you respond to.

Don’t rob the world of who you are by trying to be someone else.

Find rest in the space between who you are and who you want to be.

I don’t want to be perfect. I want to be free.

Speak to yourself like you would a child whom you love.

Where you are now, is not where you will always be.

Things that don’t work out often pave the way for things that will.

We only stop growing when we resist change.

The more love we give, the more healing we receive.

Take perfection, give me peace.

The fiercest battle starts at home.

Because I have seen a rare kind of peace in the eyes of loners. Because I have heard whispers of battles of the accompanied.

It takes more courage to send men into battle than to fight the battle yourself.

France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.

The battle is lost or won in the secret places of the will before God, never first in the external world.

Meet everybody and every circumstance on the battlefield of life with the courage of a hero and the smile of a conqueror.

Untrained warriors are soon killed on the battlefield; so also persons untrained in the art of preserving their inner peace are quickly riddled by the bullets of worry and restlessness in active life.

There’s a battle going on inside you in Ramadan, and for 30 days Allah gives you the power to win.