If you think the most courageous and difficult thing you can do is stubbornly stand your ground, try graciously giving in.
Church was never meant to be a place for gods to gather, but for devils wanting to shed their horns for halos.
The happiest adults are those who never buried old toys or abandoned imaginary friends.
Time machines, magic portals, transporters, worm holes, flying carpets, relocation charms – such things do exist. They’re called books.
Life isn’t always kind. It isn’t gentle and loving or sympathetic to the pains and sorrows of humanity. I, however, as an individual in control of my own actions, can be kind and loving, gentle and sympathetic to those around me, and in the process improve what life is for everyone.
I never realized how much you meant to me until someone spoke your name and an irrepressible, goofy grin stretched my lips.
Moms are life’s number one cheerleaders without uniforms.
Win or lose, good or bad, the experience will change you.
The most irresistible beauty is the radiant glow from a kind and gentle heart.
Of all the magic words in existence, words of kindness create the greatest transformation spells.
Mothers were meant to love us unconditionally, to understand our moments of stupidity, to reprimand us for lame excuses while yet acknowledging our point of view, to weep over our pain and failures as well as cry at our joy and successes, and to cheer us on despite countless start-overs. Heaven knows no one else will.
The most powerful and courageous heroes I know are those who bite their tongues when justification, validation, temptation, or vengeance would have them strike with truthful, hurtful words.
Kind words and tender affections will not save me from this lake of woe and misery, but they may be enough of a buoy to prevent my drowning.
What a mother wants is to hold her babies when they’re small and to be held by them once they’ve grown tall. It’s empty arms a mother dreads.
Very often, what is meant to be a stepping stone turns out to be a slab of wet cement that will harden around your foot if you do not take the next step soon enough.
The road to happiness starts with a deep breath and an awareness of the many blessings tied to that single breath.
When someone tells me to ‘just relax,’ I wonder why they don’t hand me a book?
When you love someone, you don’t care that she ate your sandwich. You only hope she found it delicious.
You are mistaken; he is not a gentleman but a sir. Just a sir. For a gentleman is grander and a rare acquaintance.
A monster’s worst fear is of being found.