It's a never ending dream for everyone it seems, to find again what was once precious and has been lost.

there are people all over the world who carry the mermaid inside them, that otherworldly beauty and longing and desire that made her reach for heaven when she lived in the darkness of the sea.

Souls were webs of light that contained the essence of a human's life. Memories and loves, children and families. Every moment of life, pressing in

Go and you will see that nothing is as wonderful as our dreams can make it

How could none of them comprehend the beauty of a human soul, shining in heaven for eternity? Where it would be whole again, as they all had been once in times past?

Once you're in the rumor mill, you never come out. You're stuck, constantly hearing the same half-truth stories about yourself.

There are strangers, people we don't know, who care about is.

The truth is more important to me than anything - my personal wealth or health or any of these things. I think that it's not so difficult for me to say what I'm saying.

I realize I didn't like you. I just wanted to meet someone that understood me. I didn't know that you were speaking from the diary. I had mistaken it for love.

Once the pathological low self-esteem goes, that's when things go downhill.

I've learned to take things a little more easily, to be a little more forgiving of myself.

Grace is not something outside or you.. In fact, your very desire for grace is due to grace that is already working in you.

A little common sense, goodwill, and a tiny dose of unselfishness could make this goodly earth into an earthly paradise.

Each generation has to reinvent spirituality.

'I am insecure' means: I can't cope on my own. The odds are overwhelming. I can't resist them on my own. I need us to join forces, stand shoulder to shoulder, march hand in hand.