People can have the best of intentions when they tell their loved ones how they should be living their lives. But often times, when we are in struggle, we are seeking to be supported, not solved.

They are called, "SELF-worth" and "SELF-esteem" for a reason... we can't let others decide what we are worth, that is so dangerous! Empower yourself!

From the tattered edges of an exhausted mind, inspiration blooms... mental filters disintegrate and walls crumble, as the ocean of creativity washes over everything.

Imagination is our inner-child and creativity, its playground.

Art gives those unexpressed parts of ourselves permission to be felt and spoken.

Sanity is transmuting all the insane parts of your brain into a creative outlet.

Art invites us to become explorers and excavators of our vast internal landscapes, discovering new terrain and digging deep into the past to unearth forgotten experiences and emotion.

My past takes no hostages, no prisoners. I've let go of yesterday and am free to receive the beautiful gift of the present.

I embrace my shadow self. Shadows give depth and dimension to my life. I believe in embracing my duality, in learning to let darkness and light, peacefully co-exist, as illumination.

Grace is darkness and light, peacefully co-existing, as illumination.

I am the brightest light beaming from the darkest depths. A dichotomy, i am . . . illumination.

Love spiritually, not strategically.

The way you live your day is a sentence in the story of your life. Each day you make the choice whether the sentence ends with a period, question mark, or exclamation point.

Comrade, your statement is factually incorrect.” “Yes, it is. But it is politically correct.” (The Rise of Political Correctness)

The Bible is instruction, it is light, it is the Word of God that predicts future events, warns of dangers and holds us back from falling and getting hurt.

If you look at the causes of the accidents, quite a few of them are operator error. We need people to be diligent and follow the rules of the road and drive more defensively.

The camembert with its venison scent defeats the Marolles and Limbourg dull smells; It spreads its exhalation, smothering the other scents under its surprising breath abundance.

But as a German - and I am German-born - we Germans are condemned once again to be radical revisionists.

The union of church and state put the church under a political control... The church was thoroughly subordinated to the state.

Black people lived right by the railroad tracks and the train would shake their houses at night. I would hear it as a boy and I thought: I'm gonna make a song that sounds like that.

Dancers come and go in the twinkling of an eye, but the dance lives on.