“You always have an opportunity to see the past for what it is, and live freely in today.”

You are not hard to love. You are just stuck in a cycle of asking for it from the wrong person.

We have to learn to spot the difference and reflect often.

Appreciate people when you see their struggle, not only when you see them successful.

An expectation is a hidden agenda with control at its root.

Self-love is not only about acceptance; it is also about growth.

Your parents don’t teach you how to heal, experience does.

Productive stress is a modern mask for addiction to chaos.

Honoring your mother is not the same as honoring her wounds.

Rejections are invitations to love yourself a bit more.

Nothing worth having comes easily. Nothing worth having can be held without gratitude, respect and humility.

Finish your food or you won’t get any dessert later.

There is no alternative to success. So stop thinking you should already be there.

My healing isn’t an abandonment of you. It’s a choice to no longer abandon me.

Nothing changes, unless we change.

Let go of the version of you that didn’t prioritize their wellbeing and failed to recognize their worth.⁣

We fear what we don’t understand.

Letting go is an art – master it and be free.

The masculine in each of us struggles for greater freedom and tries to achieve it through financial, creative, or political challenges.

Freedom is often the first casualty of war.

My definition of freedom is knowing who you are, and then being it. No matter what anyone else is doing. And naked parties of course.

The masculine grows by challenge, but the feminine grows by praise. A man must be unabashed and expressed in his appreciation for his woman. Praise her freely.

Jesus used the carefree attitude of the birds to underscore the fact that worrying is unnatural. I am learning in my own life, day by day, to keep my mind centered on Christ.

Work is about more than making a living, as vital as that is. It’s fundamental to human dignity, to our sense of self-worth as useful, independent, free people.

Chinese people need to be controlled; otherwise, they will do whatever they want.