I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others like me.
Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.
Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.
The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.
Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it.
If I am not good to myself, how can I expect anyone else to be good to me?
Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.
Don't get older just to get wiser. If you get older, you will be wiser, I believe that - if you dare. But get older because it's fun!
I refuse to allow any man-made differences to separate me from any other human beings.
In the flush of love's light, we dare be brave. And suddenly we see that love costs all we are, and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free.
There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
All great achievements require time.
There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.
Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.
Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it.
If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.
Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.
The loss of young First Love Is So Painful that it borders on the ludicrous.
If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.
Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.
The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.
History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
Nothing will work unless you do.
It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.
You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.