“I’ve learned that even when I have pains, I don’t have to be one.”

Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.

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

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

First best is falling in love. Second best is being in love. Least best is falling out of love. But any of it is better than never having been in love.

The sisters and brothers that you meet give you the materials which your character uses to build itself.

Be present in all things and thankful for all things.

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.

Women should be tough, tender, laugh as much as possible, and live long lives.

I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life’s a bitch. You’ve got to go out and kick ass.

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.

As soon as healing takes place, go out and heal somebody else.

No matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.

Success is loving life and daring to live it.

If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love.

We are not responsible for what breaks us, but we can be responsible for what puts us back together again. Naming the hurt is how we begin to repair our broken parts.

Nothing is healed in anger that was made in love -take the gloves off.

Beneath every scar there lies a tragedy, that we try to heal through writing poetry.

I said I would heal with you-instead you burned my love.

We’re so busy trying to move on and living our lives, that we sometimes forget to appreciate how far we’ve come, how well our wounds healed, and that somewhere along the journey, we’ve learned to let go.

Give me just a little ray of hope and I promise to fly on my own.

How will you ever be able to heal your broken parts, if you keep allowing the past to stay?

We shined a light through our flaws to our internalistic plea. Emphasized the healing that shall set our lost souls free. We were a brief reflection of what we should not be.