My mind is the sun, and my heart is the moon.In the sky between them, there I am.Cristen Rodgers

We are all gardeners, planting seeds of intention and watering them with attention in every moment of every day.

Listen closely. Even the trees exhale sweet love songs that roll off their boughs and echo out to all of creation. Love is always in the air.

Sometimes the purpose of the rose is simply to draw attention to the rose.

Be still my hand and let the words write themselves upon my heart. Be still my heart and let your pages be filled in silence.

I look into your eyes and I’m sure that some divine artist dipped her brush in the same soul and used it to paint us both.

Solitude is an unmarked place beyond the borders of the map, a place where most fear to tread. It’s no surprise, then, that this is where the greatest secrets and most valuable treasures are hidden.

Be careful not to laugh at the Phoenix when she goes up in flames, or you'll be left in the dust when she grows her new wings and flies swiftly away.

The dawn of space travel is the dawn of woman.

If a nation blames other nations for its problems, most likely that nation will always be having problems.

My dear lady, you have no idea just how scandalous I can be. ~Peter Viktor von Strassenberg, 1905

Live your life with a Burning Passion, with an Unquenchable Thirst for knowledge and wisdom.

There is nothing we could ever do to make God love us more

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and pursuit, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.

I think the main thing to remember when writing a novel is to stay true to the characters.

The saddest fact I've learned is nobody matters less to our society than young black women. Nobody.

What they call "play" (gym, travel, sports) looks like work.

For the average American, the message is clear. Liberalism is no longer the answer. It is the problem.