I may not always like at times, but life is a beautiful blend of joy, tragedy and dreams. If not for one, I could not have the other.

All of the years I spent trying to be someone you could be proud of would have been better spent being proud of myself for who I already was.

Life became more aligned when I started taking some of the advice I'd been dishing out to my friends.

Don't forget to pause and nourish yourself a bit along the way. When you're born to help others sometimes you forget to help yourself.

You can't sweep something broken into a bag and call it whole. It takes repair.

I call my it "the Book of Paula" or BoP for short. Those are my own opinions, based on experience.

And my heart is breakingMy heart is lying on the floor in a pool of tearsI keep asking the same questions only to have them unanswered

I don't know the perfect thing to say when a person is hurting but I do know the last thing they want to hear are reasons they shouldn't be hurting.

Hurting the person who hurt you won't heal your pain. Let them go. Karma will deal with them you don't have to write the script for the universe.

The burden of my anxiety is not my child's.

When we see others cry it is difficult, not because of feeling their pain, but your own.

And then things would be fine. Then I'd be fine.

Technology and technology-driven change has virtually nothing to do with igniting a transformation from good to great

If you want a forgotten corner to be remembered, a featureless place to be loved, a shadowy emptiness to shine, put some flowers there!

While you're working, you don't have to look life in the eye.

And for whatever reason I've loved the news since I can remember. I loved it when I was in elementary school.

sometimes I think I've got this hard kernel in my heart, and nothing much can get inside it. I doubt if I can really love anybody.

Men do not want solely the obedience of women, they want their sentiments.

I feel like I'm just learning how to play the guitar. I mean, really learning to play the guitar

Gravity is a habit that is hard to shake off.

Remember the maxim of the Romans which states that by union and counsel we can achieve anything.