Don't let your feelings be a God to you.

You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind.

Every day is a gift from God. Learn to focus on the Giver and enjoy the gift!

Being negative only makes a difficult journey more difficult. You may be given a cactus, but you don't have to sit on it.

Encourage everyone you meet with a smile or compliment. Make them feel better when you leave their presence and they will always be glad to see you coming.

We suffer much agony because we try to get from people what only God can give us, which is a sense of worth and value. Look to God for what you need, not to people.

Love can melt the hardest heart, heal the wounds of the broken heart and quiet the fears of the anxious heart.

I make mistakes every day. I'm not perfect in my behavior, but I want to be and that's what God is after, a heart that wants to be.

Don't be afraid to step out, have dreams, have visions, have hopes and always, always, always believe in miracles.

A positive attitude gives you power over your circumstances instead of your circumstances having power over you.

When we are truly confident and secure, the opinions of others cannot control us.

Cliché: "The MBA changed my life."What it really means: "A fantastic career, a great social life and a healthy bank balance...three of the things I had before I started the program.

I might be half Derek's size, but I was the one who sounded like a two-hundred-pound beast plowing through the woods.

Scars are the evidence that wounds can heal. That wounds don't last forever. That healing is possible.

A beautiful nap this afternoon that put velvet between my vertebrae.

It is better to struggle pursuing what matters than to excel at achieving the inconsequential.

Envy is destroyed by true friendship, as coquetry by true love.

Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known.

Everyday that passes I am pulled from youth as how it has been defined by that culture into something else.

People who are bad at time management. If you say you're going to be somewhere at a certain time, be there!

That that which is neither true nor truthlike does not exist. Now, whatever exists, exists otherwise in something else than it exists in itself.