“Do you know what it feels like to be wounded and told that you caused the wound to yourself by choosing to be where the harm landed?”

If you love someone, you love them. You don’t allow your pride to stop you from expressing your love to them.

You may be a disaster for a day, a month, or a year. Just don’t be a disaster forever.

Broken wings are a sign of struggle and strength.

A heart does turn cold unless it’s been treated with coldness for a while.

Being a leader is about leading your own mind’s logic and leading your heart’s reason. Be cognizant of the decisions that your mind and heart make, and your life will be much more meaningful and rewarding.

You don’t need to explain why you’re protecting your soul from harm. You really don’t.

If you gave them once the love that they did not deserve, they will come back for more.

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

Life is not fair, but we can choose to be fair humans even if life or other humans choose to be unfair to us.

The reality you live in is partially up to you. The fantasy you live in is entirely up to you.

You can draw a path for your life and have all of your goals set. You can change yourself as much as possible and change things around you just to reach those goals.

Your opinion of me does not equal my self-worth.

Letting go does not mean that you are giving up or that you are weak. It could just mean that you are no longer allowing what hurts you to control you.

Take responsibility for the choices you could have made but restrained yourself from making.

Never wish them pain. That’s not who you are. If they caused you pain, they must have pain inside. Wish them healing. That’s what they need.

If they don’t appreciate your presence, they may never recognize your absence.

I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.

Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.

Foolish is the man who says that he fears death, not because it will cause pain when it arrives but because anticipation of it is painful.

I would rather discover one true cause than gain the kingdom of Persia.

A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment.

If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.

Men are mistaken in thinking themselves free; their opinion is made up of consciousness of their own actions, and ignorance of the causes by which they are determined.

The work of woman is not to lessen the severity or the certainty of the penalty for the violation of the moral law, but to prevent this violation by the removal of the causes which lead to it.