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.
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.
Don’t be so caught up in the noble cause of responsibility that you lose your passion for who you are living for.
If they truly loved you they won’t devalue you.
The only man worth having in your life is one that would never let you walk away.
One of the easiest things for a rescuer to do is to love people without a soul because we genuinely believe that our love can fill the void inside them. Unfortunately, it drains us of our own love. The love of self.
Empowering Women 101: Know the difference between real love and a person that is with you because it is easy and convenient. A real woman doesn’t live in the fantasy that he just all of a sudden knew you were the one and no one else believes that either. Be willing to settle and accept the situation or work on it. However, don’t sit in denial and pretend going through hell in a relationship was required before he saw your worth. He should have known from the beginning.
The best part of the gospel is you get to take it with you wherever your heart lands.
Tears terrify people more than anger because they attach to your heart and leave angels of mercy to shout in your mind.
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.
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.
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?
Empowered Women 101: Empowered women never live the life they wouldn’t want for their daughter. They teach them what self respect looks like.
Every writer dreams about the day they can step into their fiction and wander its hallways.
Surviving isn’t around us, but in us.
The problem with our culture is we cling to so many different truths. Yet, the truths that we cling to also depend on our point of view. Maybe, the journey to a truth that can be free of hatred, bias and injustice requires a journey of the soul to see all view points.
You don’t go to church to find God; you bring him with you – attitude.
You will know what and who really matters to you the moment you feel you have lost them.
Spirituality has a language of it’s own and some people haven’t learned to speak it.
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.