God has joy for you right now.

It's your life... why not fill it with as much joy as possible?

People fall down, winners get up, and gold medal winners just get up faster!

When I am around someone who is a joy stealer, I say to myself, I only have to deal with you for an hour. That person has to deal with thinking that way every moment of their lives.

My definition of confidence is how you feel about yourself, and not letting the external world define you.

I was sexually abused by my step father for years and years, and that caused scars you can't see. And we know many people have the kind of scars you can't see.

Friends are people who are in your life because you feel good around them and you like them. Friends are the people you choose to be with.

You can't have real and authentic friendships unless you honor your feelings.

I spent so much of my life shut down from the abuse of my childhood. I didn't have friends and I didn't have connections with people.

I do a lot of to-dos and a lot of lists. I realized I had to make room for joy. So I added "to feel" items on my to-do list. That's something you can easily do.

I realized that I spent more time thinking about my problem clients than my great clients. I had to stop feeding the drama of the problem clients-and other problems in my life.

He had memorized the entire Qur'an and lectured on the nature of evil, which, like a shadow, cannot exist independently of the good silhouettes.

I'm interested in stories. I think I'm a bit of a pathfinder.

Anything?" She laughed. "Like what kind of anything did you want?" "Well, when I was five, I wanted to take a bath in spaghetti." -Clary & Jace, pg.310-

It's gotta be rock and roll music, if you wanna dance with me.

Without philosophy, history is always for me dead and dumb.

It is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an important question remains: what you think.

We have to instill in them the skills they need to succeed at a young age and open up their imaginations to the very real opportunities they can be afforded if they put their minds to it.

Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

My younger brother and I have been writing together, mainly for fun, for years, but we've been improvising together since we were kids. Literally.

Team members who feel threatened but who are not aware of it become rigid - and that stops teamwork.