“Struggle does not mean it is the end.”

Even though negativity begs for my attention, I will still choose to focus on the joy in my life.

Allow yourself to fill with grace, for you have come so far.

Do not give the devil a chance to work on you.

Look to the future with hope, not envy.

You can complain about what you can’t change or you can focus on what you can change.

I know that god put me on this earth for a reason. The reason may not be fully known to me yet but I know I will fulfill that reason because I have him.

I desire your design for me, lord. Make of me what you will.

Let him transform everything you are, so you can become everything you are meant to be.

You have come this far. What makes you think that will change in the future?

Let joy make a home in you.

God will always hold you together when the world tries to tear you apart.

Fight for your relationship with Jesus.

My purpose is to know, love, and serve god not the world and the people of it.

Gods plan hurts sometimes.

Set your goals then disappoint yourself then try again! Never stop trying!

The flowers don’t get to choose when they die. But oh boy, when they live they are beautiful.

Life is hard for everyone. That’s why there’s such a nice reward at the end of it.

An endless, meaningless string of apologies signals a failure to change one’s own behavior. What matters is not whether the person was authentic or really meant it in those passionate expressions of remorse. All that counts is whether that person follows through so there is no repeat performance.

Meditation is like a single log of wood. Insight and investigation are one end of the log; calm and concentration are the other end. If you lift up the whole log, both sides come up at once. Which is concentration and which is insight? Just this mind.

Sometimes I think I was making music through the wrong end of a magnifying glass.

They say that only very good friends quarrel. But at the end of the day a quarrel is a fight between two people’s egos.

Take caution when declaring war because you may believe it will be easy, but war will always end in despair.

And at the other end of the spectrum, a base in European classical music as well.

If we keep in touch with god and our spiritual guides, just knowing that they exist and they are there for us, gives us the strength to say well this is a bad phase but it’s going to end and when it ends I’m going to do something good.