“He lives as if death will never come to him, but he dies as if he had never been born.”

Don’t develop feelings and emotions of extreme sadness in which you become an unconscious responder to a situation that upsets your mindset and disables your emotional well-being.

My original appearance now is impure and that is why I try so hard to hide it from everyone harder than I work on keeping myself alive.

Living in the past stops you from moving forward, and living in the future stops you from living in the moment.

Ignoring the truth keeps you in the shadows.

We all have pain in life but we learn to live with it. When our pain leaves us and goes away, we feel empty. Pain is a pleasure.

No rose ever grew overnight, be patient.

You have to hurt before you heal: that’s how you know the recovery is real.

Letting go breeds freedom.

Our wings are built from the feathers of failure.

Make sure the burden you feel is the one you chose to keep.

At the heart of all men suffering lies the absence of safety, and from that absence, fear is born.

Loneliness breeds self-love.

He is living on a diminishing hope that good things await him in the future. A hope that promises a sense of contentment even though the scars from the past might never fade away.

Self love is a strength that only a few possess in this cruel world, don’t ever think of it as a weakness.

Silence is loud, more than the storm.

The earth doesn’t need to go to meet the sky. True love is the one that doesn’t get a destination.

We don’t make ourselves compassionate; we are born compassionate.

I was born in Houston, Texas. I grew up in Houston, by Missouri City. It’s, like, a suburb in the area; it’s middle-class. But I used to stay with my grandma in the hood from ages one to six.

The easiest way to be reborn is to live and feel life everyday.

Give up bearing children and bear hope and love and devotion to those already born.

Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.

Violence is born of the desire to escape oneself.

As motherhood is the greatest and most natural God-given gift for women for posterity, it would seem that the birth and rearing of children, in the way which to us seems most ideal, would be the most satisfying and the most rewarding career for a woman.

Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.