History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
I was basically good. Not understood, and not even liked, but even so, just, and better than just. I was merciful.
I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.
I know that when I pray, something wonderful happens. Not just to the person or persons for whom I'm praying, but also something wonderful happens to me. I'm grateful that I'm heard.
It's still scary every time I go back to the past. Each morning, my heart catches. When I get there, I remember how the light was, where the draft was coming from, what odors were in the air. When I w...
I love the song 'I Hope You Dance' by Lee Ann Womack. I was going to write that song, but someone beat me to it.
There have been people in my life who meant me well, taught me valuable lessons, and others who have meant me ill and have given me ample notification that my world is not meant to be all peaches and...
If funkytown was a trailerpark, this guy would be a double-wide.
And my seven-year-old world humpty-dumptied, never to be put back together again.
Be present in all things and thankful for all things.
I believe that the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity is daring to dare.
In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours.In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.
We, unaccustomed to courageexiles from delightlive coiled in shells of lonelinessuntil love leaves its high holy templeand comes into our sightto liberate us into life.Love arrivesand in its train com...
See, you don't have to think about doing the right thing. If you're for the right thing, then you do it without thinking.
It takes the human voice to infuse them with the shades of deeper meaning.
Independence is a heady draft, and if you drink it in your youth, it can have the same effect on the brain as young wine does. It does not matter that its taste is not always appealing. It is addictiv...
If you're for the right thing, you do it without thinking.
I've always written. There's a journal which I kept from about 9 years old. The man who gave it to me lived across the street from the store and kept it when my grandmother's papers were destroyed. I'...
The only thing is, people have to develop courage. It is most important of all the virtues. Because without courage, you can't practice any other virtues consistently.
I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others like me.