The greatest weight a bird has to drop before it can fly is fear.
As inside of every seed is the power to rise from darkness, inside of everyone is the power to rise from adversity.
Stars earn their brightest colors in the dark.
You are better than your past, greater than your present, and brighter than your future.
Water is soft, but can maneuver any obstacle; be shrewd, and be gentle, and you too will be able to do likewise.
Anger is loud, rage is deafening, and wrath is thunderous; only love can silence them.
If size really mattered, the whale, not the shark, would rule the waters.
A flawed rose is better than a flawless dandy lion.
Beautiful souls are shaped by ugly experiences.
A cat may have nine lives, but a wise person has a hundred.
Yesterday, I was clever, I wanted to be rich. Today, I am wise, I want to be happy.
Where the world only sees a seed, an optimist sees a tree.
As paint needs a canvass for its beauty to show, stars need darkness for their splendor to shine.
Be merry, because it confuses your enemies; happy, because it annoys them; cheerful, because it angers them; and joyful, because it kills them.
Dream like a child. Reason like an elder. Play like a youth. Work like an adult.
In calm waters you still find sharks.
The heart is a wanderer, the mind is its map; love is its destination.
You are strong because of what you overcame, brave because of what you defeated, fierce because of what you mastered, and powerful because of what you conquered.
Love is blind, and therefore not responsible for whoever she bumps into.
Soul power supersedes mind power.