If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you’re allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind.
There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book or simply close it.
A true gentleman is one that apologizes anyways, even though he has not offended a lady intentionally. He is in a class all of his own because he knows the value of a woman’s heart.
A best friend is the only one that walks into your life when the world has walked out.
When you give yourself permission to communicate what matters to you in every situation you will have peace despite rejection or disapproval. Putting a voice to your soul helps you to let go of the negative energy of fear and regret.
The most confused you will ever get is when you try to convince your heart and spirit of something your mind knows is a lie.
When you loved someone and had to let them go, there will always be that small part of yourself that whispers, “What was it that you wanted and why didn’t you fight for it?
The most introspective of souls are often those that have been hurt the most.
When someone you love says goodbye you can stare long and hard at the door they closed and forget to see all the doors God has open in front of you.
If he can’t handle you at your worst then he does not deserve you at your best. Real love means seeing beyond the words spoken out of pain, and instead seeing a person’s soul.
Soul connections are not often found and are worth every bit of fight left in you to keep.
Sensitive people usually love deeply and hate deeply. They don’t know any other way to live than by extremes because thier emotional theromastat is broken.
Every woman that finally figured out her worth, has picked up her suitcases of pride and boarded a flight to freedom, which landed in the valley of change.
Carve your name on hearts, not tombstones. A legacy is etched into the minds of others and the stories they share about you.
Life always begins with one step outside of your comfort zone.
The true definition of mental illness is when the majority of your time is spent in the past or future, but rarely living in the realism of NOW.
Beauty is not who you are on the outside, it is the wisdom and time you gave away to save another struggling soul like you.
Some stories have to be written because no one would believe the absurdity of it all.
If you were born with the ability to change someone’s perspective or emotions, never waste that gift. It is one of the most powerful gifts God can give—the ability to influence.
God created philosophy for all the intellects that got bored of hearing the same bible stories every Sunday.
To love someone with all of your heart requires reaching them where they are with the only words they can understand.
Two people with mental issues in a relationship does not work. It’s like sitting in a boat and neither one has an oar to row the other to shore. You can meet your mirror image in life, but that doesn’t mean you should marry him.
victimnoun ˈvik-təm 1. The moment you tell everyone you have a mental disorder, in order to excuse your behavior.
Truth and facts are woven together. However, sometimes facts can blind you from seeing what is actually going on in someone’s life.
Your words will either give you joy or give you sorrow, but if they were spoken without regret, they give you peace.
No boundary or barrier surrounds the heart of a person that loves their self and others.
Your strength will be found when you stop struggling with yourself, instead of thinking everyone is a struggle worth overcoming. Every obstacle in life is a lesson that teaches us, not others.
When someone you love makes compassion, kindness, forgiveness, respect and God an option, you can be sure they have made you an option, as well.
The mind knows the truth when your heart denies what it feels. When you don’t feel safe to let people in it is because you’re not ready to deal with the pain of honesty.
You are not what others think you are. You are what God knows you are.
Fear is to begin with the end in mind. There is no end. Life is eternal. Live life knowing that the end was your past, and the future is only full of beautiful beginnings through an eternity built around God’s love.
In the end, what will you fight for– what got there first, what got there last or what has been there all along?
The more I know about God, I am convinced He likes to read books and authors are His librarians. Every soul is a story waiting to be read.
Many of the most powerful things in life are not tangible. All it takes is for you to close your eyes to see.
You can’t selectively numb your anger, any more than you can turn off all lights in a room, and still expect to see the light.
I would fight every angel between us until God said, “Yes.
My father taught me that you can you read a hundred books on wisdom and write a hundred books on wisdom, but unless you apply what you learned then its only words on a page. Life is not lived with intentions, but action.
The moon will guide you through the night with her brightness, but she will always dwell in the darkness, in order to be seen.
It is not until you change your identity to match your life blueprint that you will understand why everything in the past never worked.
Hide yourself in God, so when a man wants to find you he will have to go there first.
The most important thing is this: to sacrifice what you are now for what you can become tomorrow.
The only way to move from your reality to God’s reality is through people who love you.
The best kind of happiness is a habit you’re passionate about.
Always give your resume of good deeds when you run into someone that you wronged many years ago. They simply need to know today’s version of you, before they judge you on yesterday’s news.
True confidence is not about what you take from someone to restore yourself, but what you give back to your critics because they need it more than you do.
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.
When you are joyful, when you say yes to life and have fun and project positivity all around you, you become a sun in the center of every constellation, and people want to be near you.
The only real battle in life is between hanging on and letting go.
Your most important “want” should be the one you can control!
Personality begins where comparison leaves off. Be unique. Be memorable. Be confident. Be proud.
Gratitude was never meant to be an excuse for giving up on the obstacles God has put before you. Some of the most magical things he can bring us require faith and a lot of planning.
When you can’t reach the standards of another’s heart you must ask yourself, “What value do I put on my soul that I would subject myself to such rejection?
You may marry Miss Grey for her fifteen pounds but you will always be my Willoughby. My nightmare. My sorrow. My past. My mistake. My regret. My love.
There are many forms of love as there is moments in time, and you are capable of feeling them all at different stages of your life.
Every broken heart has screamed at one time or another: Why can’t you see who I truly am?
Fear is the glue that keeps you stuck. Faith is the solvent that sets you free.
Hope combined with action is the only thing that will bring you contentment.
Maybe, if you can’t get someone out of your head they were never meant to leave. Perhaps, they were meant to help change you into the person you have been waiting to become.
A Plan B life can be just as good or better than a Plan A life. You just have to let go of that first dream and realize that God has already written the first chapter of the new life that awaits you. All you have to do is start reading!
When you see people only as personalities, rather than souls with life missions to fulfill, you forever limit the growth and possibilities of what God has in store for another person.
The God I believe in believes in me and won’t silence my heart or others based on a paycheck at the end of the day.
Books open the doors that others have closed on you.
All death reminds us that nothing is promised, only that life was worth it.
When I die I hope it may be said:’Her suffering was black, but her books were read’.
Every quote is like a Picasso. The meaning is different for each person and half the admirers miss the true intent and twisted humor of it all.
Inspirational quotes are dances of light that shine in dark places during your life.
It is the subtle things in life that you have to look for because the deepest love speaks at a whisper that only two people can hear.
Your heart’s strength is measured by how hard it holds on. Your self worth and faith is measured by finally letting go. However, your peace is measured by how long you don’t look back.
God will bring the right person into your life at the right time. Always believe that! If they are not there, God isn’t finished yet!
Spiritual pain is when you can’t stand another moment not knowing the real truth, and when you finally do know you can’t let go.
God is perceived by the heart, not by your reason. But what is reason? Your heart simplifying God’s guidance to fit your own needs.
Sometimes, the scariest thing you will ever have to do is trust God to fight the battles you can no longer fight.
Regardless of your faith, you can never escape uncertainty.
If you haven’t cried at least once while writing a chapter of your inspirational book, then you have to ask yourself if your’re writing fiction.
Never annoy an inspirational author or you will become the poison in her pen and the villian in every one of her books.
Sometimes, God doesn’t send you into a battle to win it; he sends you to end it.
Writing romantic fiction is the second chance that loved ones denied us.
An inspirational writer’s life is an open book that never shuts. Choose your words carefully.
The most intriguing people you will encounter in this life are the people who had insights about you, that you didn’t know about yourself.
Diversity of character is due to the unequal time given to values. Only through each other will we see the importance of the qualities we lack and our unfinished soul’s potential.
Music is the beat of a drum that keeps time with our emotions.
Every game is winnable if you change your mind about what the prize should be and your perspective about the players at the table.
You can’t always expect people to apply your wisdom when they didn’t use wisdom before they found themselves knee deep in their version of justice.
If life didn’t give you at least one person not wanting you to succeed then half of us would lose are motivation to climb that cliff, in order to prove them wrong.
Your greatest responsibility in your life is to be the best version of yourself. When you feel for what the soul believes that is who you become.
Insanity is everyone expecting you not to fall apart when you find out everything you believed in was a lie.
When a man plays with your heart it is for one of two reasons: He knows he can or he is undecided.
Somewhere between love and hate lies confusion, misunderstanding and desperate hope.
Every relationship that has hit a crossroads has asked, “What is it that you want from me?
Don’t ever stray from yourself, in order to be close to someone that doesn’t have the courtesy to remind you of your worth, or the integrity of a gentleman to walk you home.
Delusions are hardly an escape from reality. It’s a way of understanding insane people living in a backwards world.
Marriage is the beginning of love for your spouse, not the result of it.
Every broken heart has screamed at one time or another, “I want to know why!
It really is quite simple. All women really want is to be needed, valued and loved above anyone else and they will make you a keeper. It’s your actions she is paying attention to, not your words.
Empowering Women 101– A strong women knows that cheating isn’t a mistake it’s a choice. The choice was made long before you found out.
The right man in your life will fly across the world to say hello, instead of saying goodbye.
The problem isn’t that I think so highly of myself. It is just that you think so little of yourself. Live life BIG, BOLD and OUT LOUD!
Chasing a person doesn’t give you value or build values in you. You earn your value by chasing morality and practicing dignity.
The secret to your purpose is to find what you feel is important, and not pursue what others would think is important. When you think highly of yourself, me thinking highly of you will never be enough!
They say faith is taking the first step when you can’t see the whole staircase. Actually, wisdom is seeing the elevator behind it that would have taken you to the top floor.
Maybe, the lesson we can all learn from the inner sadness of a Narcissist is to see through our own fabrications, our own illusions so that we can be set free to be real once more.
Time doesn’t heal all wounds, only distance can lessen the sting of them.
Often the inspiration to write music comes from the voices in your head. You’re not crazy. Just be thankful they are not making you rescue people in 20-degree weather at 2:30 in the morning in the forest.
There is no real bravery in getting paid to save someone’s life. However, there is a large amount of bravery in a nurse break dancing at the hospital’s Christmas party.
A very unwise man once said, “He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.” A very annoyed woman once said, “He who does not want to communicate will never enjoy their silence for very long.
God’s justice will always be found at the end of a pen.
Spirituality has a language of it’s own and some people haven’t learned to speak it.
When you stop living your life based on what others think of you real life begins. At that moment, you will finally see the door of self acceptance opened.
True saddness is when someone still thinks your the same person after all these years. They brand you because of their own ego, fear and lack of spirituality. What’s sadder is when they are Christian.
When someone is stalking you because they think you are stalking them, it makes you wonder who really is the true stalker?
He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.
Living a life somewhere else in your mind is nothing more than being a prisoner where you are.
The secret to life is to have no fear. When you can let go of what others think about you, how something is going to turn out, or how your past will affect your future, then you are finally living life free.
Of all the questions I have asked my readers this is the most important: What would you do if you weren’t afraid? When you finally give wings to that answer then you have found your life’s purpose.
Denial is the way people handle what they cannot handle.
Some people develop a wishbone where their backbone should be.
If you hold onto a man hoping someone else won’t get them you have learned how to be desperate, not wise.
Judgement of others and ourselves always comes from a place of fear. It is fear that keeps us from living authentically all that we say we value.
Time is too swift for those who fear, too long for those who wait, too short for those who finally find peace, but for those who love, time is eternal. For nothing is ever lost that God wants you to find.
Real women fight for something, other than their own emotions.
Never pray to be a better slave when God is trying to get you out of your situation.
Passion is not a reaction to an external event. It is the left over emotions from the internal battles you have won that propels you forward.
If you truly feel that self esteem and motivation have to happen first before you can make changes in your life, then we’ll probably be sharing walkers at a retirement home as we talk over what might have been.
Never give up on someone. Sometimes the answers you are looking for are the same answers another person is looking for. Two people searching together are always better than one person alone.
Often people that criticise your life are usually the same people that don’t know the price you paid to get where you are today. True friends see the full picture of your soul.
A friend is not the shadow that mimics you, but the one who casts all shadows away.
The only difference between you and the person you admire is their perspective on life.
The greatest temptation you will ever have in your life is to give up on what you truly want because it seemed to difficult to have. If you put your loyalty into anything, put it into believing in yourself.
If you walk in any direction walk in the direction toward your greatest dream.
You won’t find peace with another, until you become one person–not two.
Peace can only be found in what your extraordinary imagination has defined as an ordinary life.
If you have never met a woman that would never give up, then you have never met a woman that has seen miracles.
There is no failure in loving someone, only in never letting them know.
You will never find peace when the need you cling to is not the want you desire. But when does a want become a need… when it is all you think about?
Happy people can look back and say they chose their life, not settled for it.
So many people focus on who they will be that they never get around to figuring out who they are.
You either live the life that is easy or you live the life that is difficult, but appreciate it more.
What you value at the highest level needs to be in alignment with your partner or you will have conflict.
You will know what and who really matters to you the moment you feel you have lost them.
Empowered Women 101: You are either creating drama or creating memories together. The choice is yours.
Sometimes letting go is not about a lack of faith in God, but a lack in faith that you have it in yourself to pull off the greatest plan he has in store for you.
Healing is that place where we step into 20 seconds of insane courage because we need to either close that door or hold it open. Regardless of the outcome, the truth is what sets you free never the fear of not knowing.
With humor and humility you can withstand anything.
Forgiveness is the one gift you don’t give to others. Rather, it is the gift you give yourself, so you can finally be free.
When religious people take the stance that they don’t owe anyone that is hurting closure or answers then God is not winning. Conflict continues because of lack of communication, fear and indifference.
Often those that criticise others reveal what he himself lacks.
If you have to convince someone to stay with you then they have already left.
The way you think about yourself determines your reality. You are not being hurt by the way people think about you. Many of those people are a reflection of how you think about yourself.
The only people that can’t handle the truth are those that suffer so much anxiety that they will live in denial, in order to prevent their illusion from being destroyed and feeling more anxiety.
Beauty fades and the body becomes old, but nothing can dull the shine of a woman with a good heart.
We are all daughters of God in various stages of construction.
You will never choose love greater than what you believe you deserve and what other insecure people tell your lack of self esteem to have faith in.
Anger, resentment and jealousy doesn’t change the heart of others– it only changes yours.
There is no perfection, only beautiful versions of brokenness.
No one can change a person, but a person can be the reason someone changes.
Evolving is not arrogance. It is confidence that won’t be pulled backwards, by those that feel left behind.
You always had it in you to create miracles, but you forgot that it required you to do the opposite of what you are doing now.
The empty spaces of your soul are the ones you search for, pray for and want so desperately to be filled. They are also the spaces that will never be filled, until you are ready to do something you have never done.
Being different is a revolving door in your life where secure people enter and insecure exit.
I was never weighed down by beauty in my lifetime. However, I was beaten down by the sad fears of my gender- women who didn’t allow you to feel pretty or rejoice in who you are, unless it fell beneath how they thought about themselves.
When you take the high road you will see things that some people can’t.
To be a follower of Christ and not just a fan means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.
You can have regret from yesterday, fear tomorrow, but peace today by sharing your heart’s deepest feelings. A life spent being fearful of showing your soul is a life not worth living.
If you want to discover the true character of a person, you have only to observe what they are passionate about.
You must do what you need to do to survive, but you will never survive your own heart if you don’t also make it a need.
Behind every angry soul is a wounded child that just wanted you to love them for who they are.
The best of who you are is not from who you have in your life, rather who they helped you become because they loved you.
When love and duty are one then grace is within your soul.
Great leaders get people to admit the truth because they know that dreams are buried under the lies they tell themselves, in order to feel okay with giving up.
If you don’t know what you value in life, then you won’t be able to make any meaningful decisions you can live with in the future.
Seek a man that doesn’t ask you to prove your love. Seek a man that will prove God’s love.
Sometimes the reason God doesn’t show up to win your battles is because he already put inside of you the power to end it.
Your need to feel significant will never be met, until you can conquer your fear and manage your focus.
Take the high road. People will rise up to join you or fall out of sight.
Art is nothing more than creating an emotion in your own form.
Sometimes taking a leap faith requires an imaginative mind that can create the ending you are unable to see.
Some of the most beautiful things worth having in your life come wrapped in a crown of thorns.
A wise woman knows when to stay silent. However, a wiser woman of faith knows that sometimes words can win the battle, when all odds stand against her.
Learning to let go is not giving up! It is simply passing the burden to a better fighter, so you can fight another day. (God)
Acquiring knowledge doesn’t bring power into your life, until you apply what you have learned.
We were meant to rescue each other, not cut down the forest to rescue one.
Insecure people often falsify the past, in order to make the future pure.
Judgement is always based on experience and sometimes you will battle a person’s history first, before commonsense will ever win the war.
Sometimes the simplest solution out of conflict is becoming someone’s friend, instead of saying goodbye forever.
God is the only one that won’t disappoint you. Everyone else is percentages of your peace.
The best part of the gospel is you get to take it with you wherever your heart lands.
When you know what you want you will be excited about it and give every ounce of effort to making it come true. No excuse or fear will get in your way because peace is found in focus.
There are many types of marriage relationships and all of them can work, but none is sadder than the one that doesn’t represent peace in your heart.
You will know it is love not when you think about them all the time or want to be with them, but when you worry about them and you want their approval and happiness.
Praying for the people that hurt you may not change them, but it will change you.
Peace is not about who you can live with, but who you can’t live without.
To find the peace you never had you will need to do the one fearful thing that you have never done.
Most misunderstandings in the world could be avoided if people would simply take the time to ask, “What else could this mean?
Sometimes you can be touched by God, but not healed. Often when this happens, he is using your pain for a greater purpose.
Stupidity is to have amnesia over your own faults when the person you hate makes theirs.
When people hurt it is because they feel they are going to lose something. The questions to ask is: What?
Whether you deny your wounds or see them clearly, they bring a great source of power because they lived in the same place as your heart.
You will never understand the real definition of insanity until the day you are told it is unreasonable for you to feel hurt by the very people that hurt you.
When you think this pain is all you deserve, you are right. You are the only one that can decide how long you will walk in hell.
Sensitive people feel so deeply they often have to retreat from the world, in order to dig beneath the layers of pain to find their faith and courage.
It takes courage to let go of the past and all the mechanisms you have put in place, in order to ease your pain, regret and fear through avoiding responsibility for it.
Maybe, it is not the thorn on the rose that we should see, but the beauty of the gesture.
God cannot remove the burdens of your heart, but he will prompt you where to go, what to say and what to do, in order to free yourself from your chains.
Sometimes the one thing you need for growth is the one thing you are afraid to do.
Insanity is starting over a million times, expecting to feel the spark you never did the first time.
Staying for your children is noble. However, staying with someone that teaches your children that “selective” evilness is okay is mental illness.
If you have to make a daily choice to be in a relationship then you are married to the past, not the person.
No one would have guessed that the jagged pieces of our soul fit the puzzle in this box. We were considered the left over remnants that had no place, except the picture we wanted to create together.
In the end, you will not see the physical beauty in others that caught your eye, but the fire that burned within them. This kind of beauty is the bonfire you had to attend.
There are 613,806,639 men in the world. Statistically, God has got you covered! So, never worry about one person not caring about you. Someone up to the challenge will always take his place.
The only man meant to be in your life is a man that knows your worth.
Live is not about constantly fighting to keep someone in your life. It is about constantly fighting for a better life together.
When you least expect it is when the person you always dreamt of will finally show up.
Every talent you have is not wasted. It is there because of a reason and God will open that door when the right time comes along to use it.
And when one song stops playing write the one that will save your life.
A brilliant mind was first a listener that observed the actions of the people that loved and hated them, then found a way to express their feelings, when real communication was lost.
There is no end to the things you don’t understand. The mind will search for a lie to give it an answer you can understand, but one song at the right time will challenge what you accept.
There are so many things we can have in this world, but only 10 percent of it changes the condition of someone’s heart.
You won’t understand where home is until you realize it is the only place your mind takes you back to when every journey ends badly.
With dark raven paper and twinkling white ink, I wrote my heart in the night’s sky.
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?
When does God turn a want into a need? When you feel the same way almost every day. Your thoughts can be distracted for a short period of time, but your mind will always take you back to the one place that feels like home.
Quitters always believe the lies they tell themselves because delusion is easier to live with than the reality that they settled for an easier path.
If your love for another person doesn’t include loving yourself then your love is incomplete.
Nostalgia has a way of blocking the reality of the past.
Sometimes the bridges you burn light the way out of your darkness, but the memory of the blaze will be burned into your heart and mind forever.
If you never learned to hold onto someone, how could it possibly hurt now to let them go?
No connection can ever be broken if love holds tight at both ends.
If you have to explain your sense of humor, then you are performing for the wrong crowd.
Sometimes, the people that love you the most turn out to be the people you will trust the least.
When you invite people to share in your miracle, you create future allies during rough weather.
Blame is a choice that doesn’t give you directions out of hell.
You can’t fight hatred with hatred and expect anyone to listen to you. You can only try to lessen it with humor, wit, truth and commonsense. If that doesn’t work run like hell, while they throw rocks at you.
You will never know the moon or stars, unless you breathe in their solar system and inspect it from many diverse vantage points as possible.
Tears terrify people more than anger because they attach to your heart and leave angels of mercy to shout in your mind.
Sensitive people either love deeply or they regret deeply. There really is no middle ground because they live in passionate extremes.
Your heart will always go where your mind wanders.
And when they dusted my mind for your fingerprints they found yours.
Thoughts might not be solid and always obtainable, but they become your reality when emotions are attached to them. Over time, they become your wants and form an attachment to your behavior.
Maybe, it wasn’t stuck in my mind. Maybe,just maybe, it was stuck in my heart for so long that it grew wings and wanted to fly, but didn’t know how.
What you keep alive is what you truly care about, no matter how many times you die in the process.
No two persons can learn something and experience it in the same way.
God is up to something, but you will never know unless you figure out the difference between who is the messenger carrying your future and who is the person holding you back.
Your true power is not in your difference, but in your consistency of being different. The world will always adjust to consistency, yet struggle with change.
Is not the true respect and worship of God the exercising of our power in such a way that we are also respected?
When you believe you have lost your power and control nothing will ever seem easy or simple.
There is always a storm. There is always rain. Some experience it. Some live through it. And others are made from it.
The world is waiting for us to graduate from ourselves.
We are not at the bargaining table in agreement to end abuse to our world. We are on the battlefield deciding everyday if we will let this world die or live, by how we contribute to its treatment.
One of the greatest regrets in life is being what others would want you to be, rather than being yourself.
Courage doesn’t happen when you have all the answers. It happens when you are ready to face the questions you have been avoiding your whole life.
Confidence is knowing who you are and not changing it a bit because of someone’s version of reality is not your reality.
You’re only a victim to the degree of what your perception allows.
Her wounds brought her a great source of power because they lived in the same place as her heart.
Sometimes you have to walk through the fire, in order to reach your calling.
I don’t fear the future. I fear letting it pass by me, without ever trying to make it mine.
Dignity is never silent. It has a voice, heart and soul. Truth and courage is its foundation. It will stand against the masses and speak the truth. Because every great person has always done what others found fear in doing.
Sometimes, it is how you shine in the darkness during other people’s misery that is remembered more than anything you could have said or done when you have suffered just as much.
Vulnerability gives us freedom, power and connects us to a network of injured souls. It is through the art of being real that we can heal ourself and others.
Angels come in many forms, but they always bring the same message–wisdom.
Extraordinary change can happen in your life, but it will take extraordinary people, extraordinary courage and extraordinary faith to believe that this won’t be a repeat of your past.
You will never get what you want if you believe that you are not worthy of having it. God doesn’t create us to be defeated.
People that don’t know what they are worth will always see their capture’s wings, but never their tail.
If your children know who God is they will know who they are, regardless of where you or they call home.
When you can’t escape your mind then God is telling your heart to catch up. Fight for the balance you need.
Anyone can fail at something they really don’t want. What really takes courage is going after something you want and then failing. There is more fulfillment in life knowing that you tried, rather than settled without a fight.
It is not through fighting the opposition that will win you dignity. It is when you fight the fear in yourself that asks you why you don’t feel you have it, regardless if you win or lose.
A kind word will never replace the conversation that God has prompted you to repeatedly have.
How you correct your mistakes will define your character and commitment to a higher power.
Reality is a dream that someone was brave enough to conquer.
Life will either shrink or expand based on your decision to have courage.
It takes a hell of a lot of courage to walk into your own story, but to be the hero of your own life you have to rescue yourself.
You have to have more than hope to get what you want in life.
Settling is not a destination, rather a vacation rental staring at an endless sea that dares you to cross its waves.
Money isn’t the solution to your problems. It only lets you carry your unhappiness around in style.
God doesn’t hand you an easy life because you will grow in it. He hands you a dream with hurdles, obstacles, setbacks, battles and challenges because he knows the real you is at the finishing line.
When you really want something, you will give up a million times, but your heart keeps taking you back to the starting line.
Fight for what you want because forever is a long time to be a quitter.
Don’t look for the ninety percent of the darkness in a person’s soul. Look for the ten percent of light they have left, then lend them yours because light was meant to be shared.
When you are no longer afraid is when you can be yourself.
The people that truly love us in life don’t fight for us to remain a doormat for others.
Stop expecting the world to affirm you as a person. Half of the world will like you and the other half will hate you, despite what you say or do. Christ knew this truth, but he did his life mission anyways.
You might lose battles in your life time. However, every person that stands bravely on the side of justice, for people that have no voice, wins the true battle—Gods.
It is through strength of character, not luck, do we form the predictable path of our future.
You cannot become a peacemaker without communication. Silence is a passive aggressive grenade thrown by insecure people that want war, but they don’t want the accountability of starting it.
Decisions of character come from understanding that they are accountable to God only, not to family, spouses, religious leaders, corporations, public opinion or your own ego.
Be the hero of your children’s story. Never let them believe for a minute that honor, courage and doing what is right is only reserved for other fathers and mothers.
You will never develop courage if you don’t stand in the middle of the battle afraid and pick up the sword anyways, to defend what is right. You might feel like you are outnumbered, but heroes always are.
Courage is God’s way of testing the virtues you profess to have and your level of commitment to everything you think you are.
Always do good for others because when people try to drag your name through the mud, God will always bring a storm to wash it away.
Truth was never meant to make you comfortable, unless you stand in the middle of it with acceptance.
Vulnerability + Action + Positive Thinking = Courage
God has a way of picking a “nobody” and turning their world upside down, in order to create a “somebody” that will remove the obstacles they encountered out of the pathway for others.
Live in such a way that when you die you leave God in your will for your children.
You hid in my ink and guided my hand. You stained the pages with your silence as God wrote the words, “Be still.” Yet, my heart’s blindness could only write in loud hues of red, “I love you.
The only real difficulty with becoming disciplined is when you buy into the notion that happiness comes at the price of sacrifice. The reality is this: Discipline becomes freedom when you are doing what you love.
When you settle for anything short of the best life God wants to offer you, then you have been tempted to remain safe and the accountability for not changing your life becomes your prison of regret.
Words don’t have the power to hurt you, unless that person meant more to you than you are willing to confess.
If they keep coming back to you, it isn’t love. It is because you made yourself and easy option. The moment the thing they truly want becomes less difficult to obtain is when you will realize that your worth was on sale.
Often what people don’t say or leave out, tells the real story.
Tough love and brutal truth from strangers are far more valuable than Band-Aids and half-truths from invested friends, who don’t want to see you suffer any more than you have.
Don’t ever let your spouse or partner blame an outside person or persons for the ruin of your relationship or their past relationships. If two people are committed to one another then no one can change that.
You can find anyone that will tell you what you want to hear, but the only one worth valuing is the one that tells you what you need to learn.
You can make heaven out of hell, or hell out of heaven. The choice is yours.
Joy comes when you turn it over to God to deal with. This is when you will feel the true release from it’s weight.
The most glorious moment you will ever experience in your life is when you look back and see how God was protecting you all this time.
We are chained by our own control. Life is nothing more than finding the key that unlocks every part of our soul.
Happiness is when you fight for souls that barely hang on.
Are we not all books waiting for someone to pick us up and read the pages that people missed?
What separates people who made their dreams come true is not setting goals to achieve a life the way they expect it to be, but how they expect to be, in order to achieve it.
The cure is as simple as this: Live your words and live your belief system.
Unhappiness comes from living the life of two people–the one people want you to be and the one you want to be.
Your current situation = the life expectations you have accepted as completed, unless you change your comfort zone to create a better life.
There is an excitement in creating a life, rather than maintaining a life you are not excited about living.
A warrior doesn’t worry. He or she evaluates the situation, investigates the source, calculates the risks and benefits, formulates a plan then puts it into action.
Do not conform to seek the seekers, but leave the leavers. Wisdom comes from facing what you do not yet understand.
Dignity will only happen when you realize that having someone in your life doesn’t validate your worth.
When you forgive those that hurt you, they no longer have control over your future happiness. Their anger keeps them a prisoner to your past, while you enjoy the present.
Laughter is the only medicine, without side effects.
If you are reading this then you have wasted another day of your life day dreaming, rather than planning the life God intended you to live.
God built lighthouses to see people through storms. Then he built storms to remind people to find lighthouses.
Most people are about as happy as their self confidence will allow them to be.
I never wanted to be a God fearing person. I wanted to grow up and be a person that was fearless for God. There was a difference.
It takes a female to have a baby,It takes a woman to raise a child,It takes a mother to raise them correctly,It takes a warrior to show them how to change the world.
Empowered Women 101: Empowered women never live the life they wouldn’t want for their daughter. They teach them what self respect looks like.
It isn’t what you will do for your children that makes you a great mother or father. It is what you do for God that isn’t self serving, which sets the stage for children to learn to care about something other than what is expected.
Keep those that influence you for the better close and never give them a reason to keep you far away.
History has shown us time and time again that you don’t have to know someone to love them with all your heart.
The true call of liberation of women is not in taking off their clothes, but taking off their prejudices.
If you think people in your life are normal, then you undoubtedly have not spent any time getting to know the abnormal side of them.
The purest form of faith happens when you reach the bottom of your reasoning and find there is nothing that you can do that will make sense out of what you have been through.
Sometimes losses in life are not losses at all. They are simply the evidence God provides, in order to build a story so profound, that it will cause social change.
If you want your prayers answered, you get off your knees and do the one thing you’re praying someone else will do for you.
A sacrifice is not about expecting God to break the bond you have with another person. You make the sacrifice on your own because God is more important than the bond.
One of the most powerful lessons in life is to recognize that no one can give you power, and many people don’t want you to have it. You have to find the courage to seize it, own it and hold on!
The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance, but live right in it, under its roof.
Every journey taken always includes the path not taken, the detour through hell, the crossroads of indecision and the long way home.
Our dreams will always tell us what we are missing in our lives. The smaller we make them tells God how little faith we have in him to make them come true.
When you live with dignity no man will ever take it. Live without it and every boy will steal it.
Courage can’t exist without action. Anything else is a lion without his roar.
You will never change, unless you are honest with yourself or you are forced to be authentic by someone that was honest with him or herself.
In order to be authentic, you have to make decisions based on what you want, rather than how it will be perceived.
If you can’t dream big, you will never see the vivid colors of probability over the darkness of possibility.
L I V E or E V I L — to Live life is to spell forward. To not live life is to spell backwards.
Blessed are those with cracks in their broken heart because that is how the light gets in.
Perspective is as simple as answering this question: If I had 5 months to live would I experience this problem differently?
The person who says it can’t be done is almost always interrupted by the person who is doing it.
No matter how many sins you make or how slow you travel back toward God’s valley, you are still way ahead of a person who never made a mistake and doesn’t know what it is like to climb out of a pit of shame and rise above their temptations.
Blame doesn’t empower you. It keeps you stuck in a place you don’t want to be because you don’t want to make the temporary, but painful decision, to be responsible for the outcome of your own life’s happiness.
The higher you climb, the more Satan will take notice. Keep climbing! Heaven’s gate has a lock.
We are all a little schizophrenic. Each of us has three different people living inside us every day—who you were, who you are and who you will become. The road to sanity is to recognize those identities, in order to know who you are today.
Love of God and people will pave roads where there once were none.
Where you hang your feelings is where you hang your focus.
You don’t have to say everything to be a light. Sometimes a fire built on a hill will bring interested people to your campfire.
Screwing up is hardly a major mistake. Sometimes your wrong choices bring you to the right places.
People can waste a large amount of their time trying to be accepted by people. Sometimes, God meant for you not to fit. You never know, you may hold the unique perspective that when voiced or demonstrated will change generations.
Satan will always provide a witness to where you have been, in order to challenge your fate.
God will never call you in a direction that would cause you to sin. However, he will call you to be creative enough to find a way to make what you want come true through honorable ways.
It is where you want to be in the next five years, not where you are now.
Happiness is already in the future because your heart and mind took you there a million times already. It knew.
If the past never helped you why would you ever take it into the future with you?
The way to happiness is by truth. Seek to be true in all things and you will have a foundation to build your future.
When we forgive we are telling God that we have faith in him to fight our injustices. It might not seem possible when you are standing in a storm, but when you take the high road you can see farther than you can now.
It is not the words or the actions you should trust, rather the pattern.
Don’t talk yourself into falling in love with someone. Either, you are in love or you are not. True love is not a choice. It is something you know in your heart when all guilt, doubt and fear are removed.
The journey of the mind always has longer to travel than the heart because dreams carry weight, while love makes you float.
All great beginnings start in the dark, when the moon greets you to a new day at midnight.
Worry does not keep it from raining tomorrow, but it does keep it from being sunny today.
Every broken heart has one time or another asked, “What is important to me now?
Pride is nothing more than false courage without long term solutions.
Stupidity is letting your pride rob you of God’s blessings.
God doesn’t put that much prep into something that is insignificant.
Never keep your brain so full that people’s opinions take up every pew in your mind, and truth has to be “born again” before it is believed.
Tell me of your Willoughbys, Heathcliffs and Wickhams in literature and I will tell you I met them all.
The most important legacy you will ever leave is your vision planted in the minds of your disciples and a passion as strong as a storm in their hearts.
I waited for the seasons of love to pass from this cold winter to the summer heat I dreamed of.
Distance and time might keep people apart, but the heart and mind will always stay connected by memories, miracles and the power of two unlikely souls that were destined to meet.
When the person you love can’t see your love for them beneath the painful things you say when they reject you, remember this: Love is blind.
God’s warriors don’t avoid conflict. They fight through it with communication and a positive outlook.
Words only reveal half of your heart. Service defines the other half. Character is the combination of the two.
God will shout during your storms, whisper during your sunshine and sing during the rarest rainbows you will encounter.
Prayer is not about asking what you want, but what God wants.
Whenever you can’t balance what you see with what you believe you have conflict.
In pursuit of exposing people for who we think they are, we expose ourself.
People who fit don’t seek. The seekers are those that don’t fit.
They say there is six degrees of separation between you and another person. However, when people are praying for you there are only two degrees.
God didn’t design your life so you would constantly fall down, but he does hope that you will be brought to your knees.
Bargaining with God is pointless. He already has a thousand followers that will do what you bargained to do for free.
People that have trust issues only need to look in the mirror. There they will meet the one person that will betray them the most.
Life doesn’t happen to you, but for you. Lessons can be found in everyone’s story.
More often than not, you will never be judged by your intentions because the world can’t read minds and very few will know the heart of a person they have not given time to know personally.
Don’t ever get to the point where you can’t be taught because life is a classroom and everyone owns a pen.
Sometimes your belief system is really your fears attached to rules.
I don’t need to go to heaven or hell. I have been both places and always wanted more. I will settle for somewhere in between, so eternity never becomes dull and every miracle is something I never take for granted.
Shame without repentance doesn’t lose power when it is spoken, it only seeks approval.
Never sever ties with a family member you once loved. Each of you might be on different spiritual paths, but both trails are leading you home.
The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Often, love is a tangled web of lies that only a broken heart would weave. Seldom is dishonesty the whole person, rather it’s the pain.
Even the smallest amount of light can push back the shadows.
You will finally have dignity when you realize that you are not on the path, but have become the path for others.
You can’t turn love off like a light switch. If you could it wouldn’t be love. It is something that you keep on, until the bulb burns out or someone replaces it.
Bitter people are not interested in what you say, but what you hide.
Look for the consistency and you will find all the trust you need. It is often found in the people that stick around long after every one has decided to leave.
Always trust your gut instinct. There will come a time when you will understand, but for now trust God has a plan greater than you have ever imagined.
The only way to find peace is to face the unknown and trust that God has heard your tears.
If there was any great lesson in life it was this: No battle was ever won with silence.
Life has always been about God winning. He will send you a miracle that will take you through the conflict in your life into a better situation that will create the most peace in the world— if you only believe.
Unless she scares the hell out of you, blows the cobwebs from your mind, scorches your heart with passion, melts your chains with goodness and lights a fire in your pants…then she is not the one.
Often the truth is in front of your face, but your eyes and heart are so full of lies that you can’t see it.
The difference between a moral person and a person of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, made out of weakness and tries to make amends with their life when they find the opportunity to say they are sorry is lost.
There is no amount of bad karma that can compete with a contrite spirit and God’s forgiveness.
God has witnessed everything done to you. Those that love God will feel shame for what they did. Those that don’t ….do not know God or have a concept of repentance or forgiveness.
Act with God’s compassion, mercy and forgiveness in mind and you will always be right. Act with revenge in your heart and you will always be wrong.
Never leave a situation unless you know what you needed and what you were never going to get.
Words matter, but what matters more than words is forgiveness and compassion.
Never give a person a piece of your mind when all you really wanted to do was give them a piece of your heart.
God always brings someone into your life that has traveled the same path and knows the rocks you climbed to get to the end of the trail.
You need to forgive people you don’t understand; if not, try to understand people you want to forgive.
A thorn in your side will drive you to find someone or thing to remove it. Therefore, don’t hate your enemies. Thank them. Without them, you wouldn’t have traveled as far in your life to find peace and happiness.
You will never accept gratitude as a solution to your problems, until you have reached the last stage of grief–acceptance.
When a small group of people come together to relive the Salem witch hunts, God cries. For if anything is sorrowful to God, it is evil done in his name. When you find out you were not given the truth, how will you live with yourself?
Sometimes what a person expresses in their eyes is more than all the books you could read on suffering.
Remember, the village idiot was the spiritual man who built the ark and saved his family. Keep being you and never give up marching to the beat of your own drum!
When you spend time worrying, you’re simply using your imagination to create things you don’t want.
A best friend is someone that will stand in your storm and tell you the lightening is beautiful just to make you realize that your heart was worth getting soaked.
The day I found my smile again was when I stood in my own storm and danced with my tribe.
Two people that have the same wants are two people that should be friends.
When you lose your ego, you win. It really is that simple.
You can be bit in the leg by a rattlesnake and seek help to heal your wound, or you can run after it and let the poison take your leg. The same is true with love.
Empathy and a huge imagination explain a lot of mysteries in the universe.
There are so many battles worth fighting for. The ones not worth fighting are the insecure battles that rage in another person’s mind.
God helps everything come to pass. However, he reminds us that nothing comes to stay.
When we want to see someone in a certain way, we find a way, but when we don’t we have to wake up and see who they truly are and not what our pain or anger chooses to believe.
The only man worth having in your life is one that would never let you walk away.
You will know if you are on the right path when God directs your choices, not your spouse or significant other.
A fantasy is nothing more than a dream you were too scared to chase.
The words, I love you, are empty without clarification. Women prefer to be told what they can expect. It is measurable like a Weight Watcher’s diet, with extra points at the end of the week if you don’t cheat.
You don’t walk away to prove your worth. You walk away because you allowed someone else to dictate your value and you found yourself believing it.
A man worth loving is a man that never makes you feel like an option.
Chasing a man is not winning. The only thing you win is the loss of your dignity. Confidence is knowing your value, instead of expecting a man’s love to provide you with value.
If you want to be an honorable man, then be what you pretend to be.
Never mix business with religion, or you might end up losing your testimony when the business agreement is no longer something you or Christ would put up with.
Being different will always threaten the institution of understanding of a closed mind. However, evolution is built on difference, changing and the concept of thinking outside the box. Live to be your own unique brand, without apology.
When your heart knows the truth, it never forgets.
Cruel people offer pity when they no longer feel threatened. However, kind people offer compassion and understanding regardless.
Sensitive people care when the world doesn’t because we understand waiting to be rescued and no one shows up. We have rescued ourselves, so many times that we have become self taught in the art of compassion for those forgotten.
One of the most important things you can do on this earth is to let people know they are not alone.
Being kind to someone, only to look kind to others, defeats the purpose of being kind.
The greatest lesson you might ever learn in this life is this: It is not about you.
When you can identify the insecurities inside the person that is hurting you then you can begin to heal. It isn’t about you. It is about their past.
The day you find out who you are is when you look back and realize that it was never the words, rather your actions that defined you.
God doesn’t call us to mediocrity. He calls us to a greater standard that doesn’t teach us to tear people down to reach him, but to lift others up. Be the type of person that when people walk away from you, they know who you represent!
Storms don’t come to teach us painful lessons, rather they were meant to wash us clean.
Pour God’s love out of you in pitcher fulls, not thimbles.
Never give up and never give in. The truth always finds a way to be told.
Your tears for others will float you closer toward God.
A best friend is the one person that doesn’t leave you worse off by their actions or yours.
Arrange your life in such a way that you don’t make choices based on fear of God, instead of love of God.
Make choices in life that don’t leave people bitter, worse off or confused. Any choice that leads you to do this is a choice that didn’t include God in the decision making process.
Never let the principle of what you believe in become more important than the person.
What people can get you or do for you will never replace a person that will influence you to be a better person.
Kindness is as simple as being grateful for the love anyone has shown you, by not destroying them because it isn’t on your terms.
The healthy should be reminded that we are all dying because it is through our own reminder of mortality that we accelerate our good intentions, into actions people can see.
Before you call yourself a Christian, Buddhist, Muslim, Hindu or any other theology, learn to be human first.
Nowhere in the bible did it say, “Only show compassion and empathy to those you can trust.” If we did that, we would be burying homeless people every day.
If you’re treating people poorly then you’re not emulating God’s love. God always resides with the broken hearted.
It is not the number of prayers that will give you happiness, but the number you answer for another person.
It is not what you leave to your children that matters, but what you leave in them.
Kindness is love in action, not feeling emotions or thoughts of empathy only. Kindness is doing!
If you can’t see the sun then too many things stand in your way. Sometimes, you have to climb to the top of all your fears to see any horizon, such is life. God needs to you rise higher before you will ever “see” something different.
You will never let go of the one thing that God keeps prompting you to fix.
Allowing a person or thing to leave your life, without further pain is the basis of humanity. Everything else is the reason (theology).
A man of worth is a man that sees the worth in others more than himself.
Sometimes you only get one chance to rewrite the qualities of the character you played in a person’s life story. Always take it. Never let the world read the wrong version of you.
The destination is not the journey. The destination is the person you choose to enjoy the journey with.
A quote is not a conversation, but an invitation to change your perspective.
You can’t be tempted, unless you want what is tempting you.
It is better to be alone than to become a person that loses his soul to the fear of loneliness.
Sometimes you have to look past a person’s mistakes to see God’s presence.
This much is true: When you are about to effect the lives of hundreds of people, Satan will do everything he can to prevent it from happening. Often pride and anger are his best assassins.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing that solutions don’t come from individuals, but rather experiences.
In every experience we get to choose either love or fear as a response. Your character is formed by the percentages of those choices, which then forms your life.
It is better to be alone then to be in a relationship, while you are trying to figure out what love means to you.
A daughter of God knows that insecurity is not an excuse for doing evil to others, nor will God rest until caring for everyone is a lesson you learn.
We add caveats to prayers like seasoning to bad sauce. We hope for something else or something more, but we forget. Sometimes life isn’t the pleasure of the taste, rather the nutrition we get from it.
Despite our disapproval with what God allows us to endure, he still remains the same God that is not interested in our convenience, as much as our character.
Life is as simple as these three questions: What do I want? Why do I want it? And, how will I achieve it?
It is not your talents that make you great, but your decisions.
Winning and losing is not an external game. It is an internal battle over telling yourself the truth vs. lies regarding why you haven’t stepped into the life you dreamed of.
When what you value and dream about doesn’t match the life you are living, you have pain.
A goal will always tell you where you don’t want to be.
When you have a plan in your mind of what the best life is for you, but it doesn’t match your life, you have pain.
The goal of a life purpose is not what you will create, but what it will make you into for creating it.
Don’t say you don’t have enough time or enough money to change the world. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Gandhi, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci and Jesus Christ.
You can’t be creative without criticism. If your life is without critics then maybe you are painting your life’s masterpiece with only a broken brown crayon.
Some people need significance more than they need another person. Change will only happen in a relationship when you realize it is not the person, but the “emotion” you desire.
Right person, wrong timing doesn’t mean God was wrong. It means you were there at the right time to fulfill something else. Look for it.
The only person that deserves a special place in your life is someone that never made you feel like you were an option in theirs.
The only real conflict you will ever have in your life won’t be with others, but with yourself.
A person that doesn’t know their worth will never know yours. Therefore, the longer you hang onto hope that they will finally see your worth is the moment you start to depreciate in value.
Never chase a person that doesn’t know your worth because the moment you catch him you will always feel you were never good enough.
If you live life on your own terms it shouldn’t feel like a jail cell.
When you only know your faults and failures, you allow yourself and others to downgrade your dreams and belittle your wants.
I am convinced that the jealous, the angry, the bitter and the egotistical are the first to race to the top of mountains. A confident person enjoys the journey, the people they meet along the way and sees life not as a competition.
If you’re stressing over happiness, you’re doing it wrong!
Conformity begins the moment you ignore how you feel for acceptance.
Worry is like a roller coaster ride that you think will take you somewhere, but it never does.
A life out of balance is a person that doesn’t believe happiness can be achieved now, or in the future. It is as fleeting as the wind.
That is who I was yesterday. Today I walk with God.
Be honest with who you are, what you want and how you want to be treated. Boundaries only scare off the people that were not meant to be in your life.
Some will wear masks their entire life because they care about what other people think, while others remove the mask to be who they truly are. The difference between the two is not the ability to trust others, but to trust in God.
Don’t beg for approval or expect respect. Respect comes from within and your choice to allow people to take it from you, by how you teach them to treat you.
Empowered Women 101: A confident woman knows that forgiving is important, but sticking around for constant abuse isn’t being confident; it is called being a doormat.
If you have to convince someone that you are their soulmate then you didn’t realize the thousand other guys applying for the job.
Empowered Women 101: Confident women know the difference between being a meal ticket and being the meal.
True self confidence happens when you stop blaming others for not seeing what you love about yourself. Not everyone has the same list of needs.
Never speak unless you can improve upon the stupidness of people’s silence.
Some women are built by the fire. Yet, there are some that are the FIRE!
The victory is not to change the mind of the critic; it is to evaluate what you can learn and discard, yet still walk away with peace in your heart.
How you react doesn’t tell a person about your character, as much as it does your fear or God’s fire. Which is it?
Pressure has the power to create a diamond, but it has to be the “right” pressure.
The only way you will ever be free is when you decide you have had enough of living up to the standards other people force upon you through shame. Never wear their chains of judgment when they can’t break free of their own.
Never be ashamed of who you are. True shame always belongs to the person that enjoys being ashamed of who you are.
Heroes are not made. They are born out of circumstances and rise to the occasion when their spirit can no longer coexist with the hypocrisy of injustice to others.
Never allow yourself to become a choice in any relationship. The moment you do is when you have reduced your loved one’s affections to a daily biological question: Should I take a dump here or wait till I get home?
I don’t even pretend to believe I know everything; I just believe in arguments God told me I had a pretty good chance of winning, while I was traveling through hell.
You know you have found your life mission when you say, “I dare you to try and take this away from me.
When you have the courage to follow your talents into the dark unknown places they lead, often God will send angels to light your way.
The problem with this generation is they are so quick to define who they are in the process of searching. It is their need for immediate acceptance that keeps them from exploring further.
A relationship run by rules, instead of love is a relationship that is on the road to failure.
Madness is loving the unsolvable puzzle of your soul and replacing the lost pieces with my own.
The biggest lie women tell themselves about men: When I get what I want, I will be happy.
You will know it is love when the need can’t be met by yourself or God.
Nobody knows what God’s plan is for your life, but a whole lot of people will guess for you if you let them.
When you’re given the gift of truth, you spend a lot of time trying to tone it down because it is already offensive enough.
I have found so many angels trapped inside undisputed jargon that I find myself digging at the words, in order to release them, from the books that unfairly captured their soul.
If you truly loved someone you won’t become their enemy. You will become their guardian angel.
It doesn’t matter who said it, as long as it changed you.
Love is proved the moment you let go of someone because they need you to.
When you love yourself you won’t need to ask God if someone is being honest with you. You will know already because you wouldn’t have asked him if you had the self confidence to know how people should treat you.
Set the standards for what you expect of people and the correct ones will join your cause.
Empowered Women 101: Happiness is something that you establish before a relationship. It is not the relationship that establishes it first.
Never settle on a life you don’t want when God is trying to give you a better life.
You can be broken into a dozen shattered pieces and still heal the world because service has its own medicine–hope.
Never underestimate the woman that holds God’s pen.
The best stories are the ones with the unexpected plot twists that no one would have guessed, even the writer.
Every writer dreams about the day they can step into their fiction and wander its hallways.
If God didn’t want me to cross boundaries, then he wouldn’t have made me a writer.
I don’t know why anyone would be scared of a homeless person. The truly scary people are all the murder mystery writers. They spend all day thinking of the perfect plot on how to kill someone and get away with it.
You are not your past. You are the warrior that rose above it to become the example of someone who didn’t survive, but thrived in creating the most beautiful last chapter of their life.
There is nothing more dangerous to the adventurous spirit than a secure future that can predict the same sun on every horizon because they only see the same view.
Grace will meet you in the valley, and her song will carry you home on the wind to another sky filled with ethereal beauty unfolding and love everlasting.
There are many things evil people can take from you. However, they can never steal your ability to laugh and laugh loud.
Dreams are built around the word hello, but in the end fate only knows the word goodbye.
Often subtle clues are not obvious enough for the stubborn or stupid. This is when God stops throwing crumbs and starts throwing the whole piece of bread. If you step on moldy bread then you know you have waited too long.
The daggers of silence last longer than anything ever spoken.
Never stand in the way of letting God use people’s actions, in order to solve a greater issue in the world.
Are we not all actors playing parts in another person’s play?
Nothing changes until people decide to do the things they must, in order to bring about peace.
The true measure of a best friend is where they are when you “make” the biggest decision of your life, not where they were during the decision process.
The journey is the mystery…the destination the answer. If you don’t have a happy ending yet, you have not finished reading the right book.
The goal for most people should not be to feel better, but to get better at feeling.
All of us at one point end face up in a ditch, but only a few will choose to look up at the stars and dream.
Apathetic people sit back and wait for things to get better before they move. Radical people make things get better, by how they move.
Everyone loses their class when they travel through hell, but only a few will regain it if they remain humble and accept the part they played in their own misery.
Do not except anything as love without truth because love and truth have always been best friends.
Humility is the only thing that can restore a relationship, when respect has been lost.
I’ve never been bothered with my conduct. I’ve only been bothered by people that don’t get it correct when they gossip about me.
Anyone can plot a course with a map or compass; but without a sense of who you are, you will never know if you’re already home.
There is nothing more entertaining then leaving someone speechless. Yet, there is nothing sadder than realizing that person was incapable of retaining half of what you said, and will repeat the story all wrong to someone else.
Every person has a life mission to fulfill. Never attempt to destroy what God has put in another person to do. You don’t know God’s plans, but Satan will most certainly use you to stop his plans.
Anyone can possess, anyone can profess, but it is an altogether different thing to confess.
Piety /pi•e•ty/ (modern definition)1. When you use Christ’s teachings to put someone in their place out of anger and self-righteousness. It is the number two reason people leave the faith. The first is pride.
God is always trying to give blessings to us, but our minds are usually too full to receive them.
You were the poem I never knew how to write because no words could describe the wind you cannot see, but feel.
Long standing hatred between a man and a woman is just unspoken attraction that has bruised egos.
What you feed your soul is what you harvest with your actions.
If a man says he is Christian, yet he has no problems knocking you up, having premarital sex or living in sin with you, then you have to ask yourself, “What version of Christ does he believe in?
You will never say goodbye to the past, until you understand why the flashbacks haunt you.
Don’t ever feel bad that someone couldn’t give you all of their heart. Be grateful that you can take the least complicated part of their soul with you, wherever you go. This is more than some people will ever have.
God doesn’t always bring you the entire truth. He sometimes gives it to you in pieces, in order to learn. Regardless, it is the piece that you got today that will renew your faith for tomorrow.
Honesty is vulnerability. Sadly, not everyone can handle someone’s honesty. However, lying allows people to be comfortable.
When people don’t respect one another seldom is there honesty.
True friends are not mirrors where we can always see ourselves reflected in a positive light.
Do you really think all angels are sweet and gentle? You must have forgot that the front lines of the War in Heaven were littered with bold women that had something to say.
If you don’t find the right set of eyes to see through your bull, you will always be surrounded by friends that will tell you white lies because they like your company and don’t want to ruin the evening.
Honesty is a heart that betrays itself for a dream, a moment, a kiss.
Why would you ever premedicate honesty? To hesitate is to overthink how you feel. A blurted out answer is usually the most genuine.
When things don’t add up, either you don’t have a calculator or you forgot to use commonsense by simply asking.
When you are being judged by someone that has no idea who you are always remember this: Dogs always bark at strangers and usually there is always some wacko neighbor that wants to try out their new gun on an intruder.
We have all at one time been stranded on islands shouting lies across the seas of misunderstanding, hoping the fog will carry our mischief to the distant ports in people’s minds.
We are all lies waiting for the day when we will break free from our cocoon and become the beautiful truth we waited for.
People’s behaviors are messages, not a diagnosis because I can no longer discern the world’s version of insanity.
Be leery of silence. It doesn’t mean you won the argument. Often, people are just busy reloading their guns.
A heart worth loving is one you understand, even in silence.
There are always a million words behind the silence.
Like hatred, guilt can’t be locked in the silence of forgetting, without taking part of your soul with it.
Silence is best reserved for the fearful and foolish.
Sometimes the silence of your friends is worse than your enemy’s words.
Sometimes, we are unable to break free because we are held captive by divine assignment because in our problem God has given us a unique purpose.
People who made their dreams come true didn’t simply go after it. They changed the person they were, in order to fit the type of person that would live that type of dream.
You will know the person who was meant to be in your life by how they make you feel spiritually. If they live in such a way that inspires you to become better then you have found someone you can evolve with vs. raise.
Anyone can find the dirt on someone, but very few can wipe it from their own shoes.
Don’t do the right thing for the wrong reasons. It is the “why” that keeps us committed to our choices and defines our character.
If you put yourself in the emotion that you want from others, you are more likely to receive it.
The actions of our closest friends say a lot about our character—what we overlook, what we contribute to and what is important to us when the world doesn’t take notice.
Some women don’t care what you can do for them. They care about what you could make of them in the inside.
Strength of character comes from being hit by stray verbal stones, while protecting discarded ciphers in the snow.
Principles are meant to serve people, not people serving to uphold the principle, while harming the people.
You can ignore your heart and mind, but it will always find its way home.
You have two choices in life: Live the life you want or live the life of acceptance.
When you heart knows it doesn’t belong there, it will continue to self sabotage your future, until you make the choice you wanted, but found a million excuses not to pursue.
Sometimes our wants or needs have nothing to do with being ungrateful and everything to do with making a mistake.
You are only earning the life you get when your inaction allows people to decide for you.
Sometimes another person’s fear tells you that everything you’re about to do is right.
You will never get to your destination on time if choose to walk two paths through life.
Life has always been a series of the same choices: enslavement, apathy or freedom.
God is always willing to give you the best life possible. If you change your mind at any time you are free to go back to enjoying hell.
The most important journey you will take in your life will usually be the one of self transformation. Often, this is the scariest because it requires the greatest changes, in your life.
If you want peace in your life, you have to stop declaring war.
The man that is meant to love you will have a million questions about you, but none will ever ask your value.
Forgiveness is not an invitation to become a doormat for other people’s hypocrisy.
Inside of you is your love, not beside you. She is just there to remind you of where you placed her heart.
Don’t ever let someone tell you the value you don’t have, in order to be in someone’s life. That is often the value they feel you have, not that person.
Sometimes painfully lost people can teach us lessons that we didn’t think we needed to know, or be reminded of—the more history changes, the more it stays the same.
For, what is the purpose of true love, other than to rescue another from one’s self? Why is that not the first thing we look for?
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Outward beauty is the frame for the masterpiece of your soul.
The irony of Christianity is that believers get so angry, and self righteous toward other Christians who sin differently than they do. Christianity is like one large fraternity where brother and sisterhood is tested by hazing.
The purpose of any healthy relationship is to find someone that will magnify your life’s experiences, not tolerate it or become a spectator of it.
Often a woman that doesn’t have any business being in a fight is there because their ego thinks it can mend what other people can’t. It’s either superiority or a second chance to heal a wound they have, by meddling on your battlefield.
When someone you loved finds no flattery in the gift you gave them then you must ask yourself, “What was worth loving?
If you are hurting because they hurt then they are the ONE.
Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third.
The walls you put between yourself and other people doesn’t just keep them away, it also keeps God away.
Happiness is always on the other side of being teachable.
Peace can only be achieved by a contrite spirit, open communication and tolerance.
Relationships with negative people are simply tedious encounters with porcupines. You don’t have the remote knowledge how to be close to them without quills being shot in your direction.
You don’t need to wait for God to show up, in order to be rescued from your bad situation. God has been trying to get your attention for a really long time.
If you spend your life over analysing every encounter you will always see the tree, but never the forest.
Your ability to see will never broaden when you only see yourself.
I rather be a stupid person wanting clarification and answers, in order to be wiser, than be a stupid person that blindly believes the lies they are told, without question.
You won’t change anything significant in the world if you try to be like it. Change comes when you do something different.
We are all children coming inside from recess with varying degrees of dirt on us.
Love will drive you insane, but never let it drive you stupid or blind.
An infinity with God has always been a circle, not a straight line past all your mistakes.
People that don’t move will never notice the chains they carry.
Respect should be found in your own heart and never demanded, sacraficed, begged for or negotiated. If you have to explain why you deserve it then you never had it.
Sometimes all you need is one person with a guilty conscience to come forward and do the right thing. Often, the miracle you need resides inside of yourself, when you humbly ask for forgiveness.
When you are offered a miracle take it. Otherwise, show God your tail so he can move on and give it to someone who doesn’t want to be in hell any more.
When you are standing in the middle of a storm you have two choices: Pray to God that it goes away. Or, start praying to God that he gives you the wisdom to figure out why you’re standing in the middle of a storm.
Lack of communication has a way of clipping our wings, which keeps us from flying. When things are left unspoken, we forget that everyone is destined to share the sky together.
Communication is the one class no one graduates from. Even the wisest man’s words will be misinterpreted by a fool.
See it for what it is and own it, rather than rethink it so you don’t have to deal with the trauma of the abuse. This is the only way to move on–through acceptance.
The purest love always reveals itself during acceptance.
The best part about being a writer is getting the last word.
Writing is the only way to run away from home, without ever leaving.
Fear and focus are the only two things standing between you and staying positive.
A true love story has always been about the journey, not the ending.
You can spend the rest of your life fighting to be respected, accepted and understood by the people you have created a life with or you can start living a life where that isn’t a daily goal and ambition in your relationship.
Sometimes we can spend too much time trying to fix our life that we forget to live.
I am not a human being. I am a human BEING. Just be.
Tolerance is nothing more than patience with boundaries.
Inspirational people weren’t meant to be enablers. They were meant to empower!
Your religion is not what you do on Sunday. It is how you live Monday through Saturday.
Immorality is the word we use to describe people that are not sinning the same way we are.
The most common lie you will ever tell God is your opportunity to do the right thing was taken from you.
Sometimes you can’t agree with people because you would both be wrong.
The question isn’t who will be with me in life, rather how will I create the ending I am proud of?
Your expectations of other people should never be greater than what you expect of God. Why is it that you can patiently wait for him to make your life better, but you won’t consider he is patiently waiting for you to be better?
Winning or losing achieves the same result–change.
If someone wants to be in your life they will find you. If they don’t they will find an excuse.
The more you rationalize, the more you move farther away from your authentic self.
The need for control always comes from someone that has lost it.
People seldom change. Only their masks do. It is only our perception of them and the perception they have of themselves that actually change.
Forever echoed in their favor. “Never say never”, she said softly. For you see, Forever had never heard of Never.
It is not what they say, but the reaction that tells you everything you need to know.
The only person worth risking everything for is the one person that would never let you risk everything for.
True love is not a question. It is an answer that you never have to spend a lifetime figuring out.
True love is the tide that pulls out to sea, but always returns to kiss the shore at sunrise.
The best don’t stick around when you treat them poorly, only the desperate do.
God will always deliver the truth when you have enough faith to believe in miracles.
Don’t be so caught up in the noble cause of responsibility that you lose your passion for who you are living for.
Your soulmate wasn’t suppose to be perfect. You were meant to see the cracks in her soul and fill them with what you have and she was meant to see yours. Together you would be complete.
Satan will tempt you with many things in life, but the most powerful is the temptation to be grateful for what you have, when it is not the best life God had to offer you.
The problem with Christianity is more people profess the truth than live it. So much hypocrisy abounds that I can no longer say I count myself among them without being held to the same unachievable standard.
The irony of rule followers is they often quote a lot of people that do not follow as many rules as they do.
You will know you are in love when it doesn’t matter if you sit in heaven or hell with that special someone just as long as they can make you laugh, while you put out the fires.
The definition of hell is two people in a relationship that is starved for love and unable to fulfill that need.
You won’t find angels in hell, only demons that know how to play with yours.
God’s plan will never look easy when you are sitting in hell. KEEP MOVING!
In the end, a lack of compatibility is what ruins relationships. You can’t force someone to be an eagle when they are a duck. Nobody wants to fly solo. Dreams were meant to be shared together.
Until you have stood in another woman’s stilettos, you will never begin to know the year of pain she felt breaking them in.
The only person I compete with is Satan. If that happens to be you, then could you please move out of the way? You’re standing in Christ’s spot.
God can deliver you so well that some people won’t believe your testimony.
Sometimes, it will never make sense until you find the right path that makes sense to you and no one else.
No one likes a person that “should of” all over the place.
Death says a million words that the heart can’t pen.
When you lower the definition of success to such a level that any person can reach it, you don’t teach people to have big dreams; instead you inspirit mediocrity and nurture people’s inadequacies.
You will never know love’s depth, until it is gone.
To know your life purpose is to connect with a higher power.
The only way to cry your eyes out and laugh your ass off at the same time is to have your mom or girlfriends present. Without them, the laughing part wouldn’t be nearly as fun.
Empowered Women 101: If he has to destroy other people to raise your self esteem and level of trust then he is not a son of God and guess what your not a daughter of God for letting him do it.
You can’t control other people’s actions, but you can control who “thinks” they have control over you.
The only people you have to look out for in life are the people that don’t care about anything or anyone. These are the people that end up teaching your children.
An encounter with God demands a response. An encounter with Satan demands your God’s response.
Religious guilt will never grow the kind of love you want in someone.
He said, “If God lived on Earth people would stalk his Facebook page and leave nasty comments on his Pinterest site.” Then it sunk in- timing was everything and social media was the devil.
Mental illness is not something you misunderstand in this era. Get educated because bias is no different than racism.
There will always be people afraid of the monsters in the night. They are usually the ones that look for them because they have proven they exist in themselves.
While you were busy trying to prove God stands behind you, God was before me lighting the trail, so he could lead us both.
She was a collector of reflections looking for souls that could see deeply inside her soul.
Some of life’s greatest wisdom comes from observing the lives of very lost people.
Clarity and focus doesn’t always come from God or inspirational quotes. Usually, it takes your mother to slap the reality back into you.
Sometimes the best gifts are the ones you can’t get on your own.
What a trajedy to be a martyr for love, yet we worship the characters anyways because they remind us of how we struggled.
That was the problem with love. It never happened on your terms, it happened on theirs.
If you continue to dig the same hole in the same place in your life, eventually you will be standing in a grave.
The reason everything falls apart around me, but I don’t is because my angels keep me standing up.
There is nothing worse then being surrounded by a bunch of people telling you to do what is right, when they can’t define that definition, without a lot of hatred and judgment behind it.
The price tag that you put on your soul will determine the people and circumstances in which you find yourself.
If you choose to be fearless, then be fearlessly authentic not an imitation of someone you envy.
Insecure people only eclipse your sun because they’re jealous of your daylight and tired of their dark, starless nights.
To be a strong and empathetic person always requires us to trust that God will send angels to the people’s heart we tried to reach, but couldn’t.
Hold onto the wings of angels that pass your way. They fly higher than any army that has none.
Why would anyone want perfection when growth comes from flaws?
Love has a way of making the sane insane and the insane normal.
Your tears are never invisible—there is always an insecure woman that lights up when you point them out.
Learn the difference between a person that would have never given up on you and a person you pushed away.
Choosing a mate is not a matter of can they do the job, rather will they. A partner of “potential” doesn’t make for a happy marriage. Their actions have to be in line with your needs.
It is not until you find yourself lost in the silence that you will learn to let go because everyone has let go of you.
When dealing with critics always remember this: Critics judge things based on what is outside of their content of understanding.
The only chains you should wear in life are the chains of commitment.
A broken soul doesn’t invest in boundaries because the world has crossed them, without mercy.
Don’t water your testimony with your righteous expectations of church members. Their imperfection will disappoint you every time and cause you to leave every church you try to join.
Loyalty will always be found in the things you regret because it mattered.
I have always found the hardest mind to change is one that is religious.
Any woman of virtue won’t be easy to come by. She will make you jump over hurdles to reach her.
You can never kill the spirit of an artist. They will always rewrite their resurrection and paint an eternal sunset with a blaze of orange that no one has seen before.
There is nothing spiritual about a marriage that uses guilt, blame, shame or religious manipulations to keep a relationship together.
It is hundreds of tiny threads of memories, which sew people together through the years. Despite, their mental separation they stay woven into that tapestry out of habit, emotion, obsession or fear.
Marriage creates one world for your child. For that alone, two old friends can try to see a peaceful world through the eyes of their angels.
Marriage is what you make of it, and God has many versions of what that looks like based on what different souls need, in order to grow.
What good is intuition if your heart gets in the way of hearing it?
When criticism doesn’t make sense, it is usually coming from a different place.
Be patient and believe in your future. God is already there and is preparing a way.
If soulmates did exist I am pretty sure they would never divorce you, dump you, kick you out, separate from you or make you an option. They would never give up because you meant that much to them.
It is the apathetic person that sees the cause while the charitable person sees the need.
You are loved deeper than any ocean. Let your mind swim through it’s depth because I will never let you drown.
There really is no sense in pretending to be normal. Just be you because the moment you do, weirder things happen. Crazy comes back into fashion and every woman has to go out and find her some.
Every insecure soul has a government of their own and a paid judge in their court room.
The most influential people you will ever meet were once held together by the encouragement of others.
The real moments that changed the world are when church members miss the meaning of a whole sermon, and take no accountability for the testimonies they damage, by being self-righteous.
Hypocrisy/hi pakrise/ noun1. The moment you tell someone it is not important to be right, in order to look right to everyone else.
When you turn your back on hypocrisy and do nothing you don’t change the hearts of others you change yours.
There are so many random questions in life, but the important ones harldy have a random answer.
Sometimes, the only thing that stands in your way from moving on completely is one question. Sadly, it is the one question God asked another person to answer for you. Be the solution, not the problem.
If God gave you contentment then you would never pursue your life purpose. It is your restlessness that pushes you to take action, change your life and seek more of what you could possibly be.
Your lack of commitment to being different is what kills you. It is the insanity of doing the same thing every time and expecting a different result that wastes your time.
Marriage is a journey of disasters, only to fall in love all over again, with the person that rescues you each time.
You don’t give up on people you truly love. Whether they are in your life or stand on the edge of your heart, you want them to be happy. This is the truest kind of love because it gives more than it ever receives.
When you find love you will know. It will be the one thing worth waiting for.
The greatest work you will ever do is charity; the most divine work you will ever do will be changing people’s perception of God, while you’re doing charity.
The purpose of any charity is simply to turn people’s mirrors into windows. An outward view of the world’s needs are vast in comparison to an inward one.
Never fall in love with someone that won’t fight for you because when the real battles begin they won’t pull your heart to safety, but they will their own.
The only thing sadder than unrequited love is being in a relationship where there is unrequited love.
Cruelty is a language that the blind can see, the deaf can hear, and the heart feels forever.
Buried emotions are caged nighthawks that have fallen in love with the moon. They don’t understand the sun because they were born with the darkness of shadows in their soul.
It is not what you don’t know that hurts you; it is what you do know, which is not the truth that does your spirit the most harm.
Have you ever considered that you shouldn’t pray for God to deliver you from your enemies, rather deliver you from yourself so you can not hate them?
Blessed is a mother that would give up part of her soul for her children’s happiness.
Women of dignity know when to stop expecting loyalty when he won’t even give you honesty.
The biggest battles you face in love are the battle to know your worth and the battle to know when your boundaries need to be protected.
People meant to be together will always take detours through pain, misunderstanding and pride, but some how they always drift back to the one thing that makes them feel alive.
Either, you are in love with someone or you’re not. Fear is complicated, not love.
To die old with a young mind is such a tragedy. Naiveness was never a blessing.
Always remember that you can explain things for people, but you can’t comphrend for them.
Always remember that you have been called worse things by better people.
Don’t waste your time being what someone wants you to become, in order to feed their list of rules, boundaries and insecurities. Find your tribe. They will allow you to be you, while you dance in the rain.
The meaning you apply to what has happened to you is your decision. There will be critics that have their version, but God didn’t call them to be your audience, someone else did.
The people that understand you the most are not always the people you call family. Often, it is the person that has traveled a parallel road because they have seen the same scenery in life and can comment on the view.
Anyone can have a friend, but the one that would walk in a storm to find you is all you will ever need.
The best plot twists are the ones you didn’t expect.
She builds people up because she knows what it is like to be torn down.
We are stronger than stigma, but until more celebrity role models openly discuss mental illness we will still be stereotyped as less than capable, by an upside down world that thinks reality television is actually normal behavior.
A wise woman protects her kids. A wiser woman hangs out with police officers, retired FBI agents and private investigators.
Give up trying to convince people who you are, instead confuse them. It is a lot more fun!
What lies between where you are and where you want to be sometimes requires traveling through the Twilight Zone.
You didn’t choose God. He chose you. When you stop feeling hurt by everyone and plotting your comeback, he has some very important things he wants you to accomplish with your life.
Empowered Women 101: A confident woman doesn’t have to talk a man into loving her. He either loves her completely, not enough or not at all. Regardless, she doesn’t settle for less than she deserves.