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

Gratitude, fill me up and overwhelm me with peace.

Like every song, life is a sequence of notes. A symphony of highs and lows.

Maybe strength is less about carrying the load and more about letting go.

We all start off afraid.

Give yourself time to rest + heal + then rise.

Do not settle in the dirt. Get up and make something from it.

Kind people aren’t doormats.

Boundaries aren’t walls to keep people out, they are tools to let the right energy in.

We heal in a community, take my hand and I’ll take yours.

You don’t need to go far to find beauty. – you just need to start seeing yourself.

Distressed but not defeated.

Better yourself. Don’t belittle yourself.

It’s okay to know what you want, it’s equally okay to be fighting it out well.

Mistakes happen to refine us, not define us.

Things do not have to be shiny and loud, to be important.

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

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

A child’s course in life should be determined not by the zip code she’s born in, but by the strength of her work ethic and the scope of her dreams.

Value is not determined by those who set the price. Value is determined by those who choose to pay it.

There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.

O Lord, thou givest us everything, at the price of an effort.

Let him who would move the world first move himself.

It is your decisions, and not your conditions, that determine your destiny.

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.