Frederick Douglass Quote

In evaluating ourselves, we tend to be long on our weaknesses and short on our strengths.

We must clean the lens of our hearts to see the state of our souls. However, too often the former is too dirty to even know that the latter exists.

She was a collector of reflections looking for souls that could see deeply inside her soul.

Self is a sea boundless and measureless.

Mental illness is not a fraternity or a social club for like minds. It is its own religion to each person that has it. Their mind is their pastor, their feelings are their scriptures and their delusio...

How can you follow your heart, unless you know why you have allowed it to be empty for so long and didn't have the courage to fix it?

I like performing because it's direct contact with live people. I write a good deal of the time but that's introspective creation rather than interaction.

Your actions will always be what the world sees, but people who choose to see through God's eyes will always have the compassion to understand why.

The people they had been last summer, the person she had been--Dicey guessed she'd never be afraid again, not the way she had been all summer. She had taken care of them all, sometimes well, sometimes...

Oh yes, I am frequently driven to an enraged frenzy by the blatantly crass actions of others. But to be painfully honest, that anger is much less driven by the reality of their actions and far more fu...