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"I sensed he was the one who might be able to see me clearly, the way I most wished to be seen."
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"When you love someone, you can just live without it. You desire to connect and communicate."
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"Research by the Income Center for Tradeshows found that people are twice as likely to remember you if you shake hands. According to the American Management Association, it takes only one-fortieth of a second to create a human bond. Whether you shake someone's hand, squeeze their arm, or touch their shoulder, make these moments count to be remembered favorably."
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"You must be able to communicate properly with the people you want to minister to."
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"Paths cross all the time in this world of our, sometimes in the strangest places."
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"There are souls that can't encounter to each other."
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"Everything becomes yours when you touch it with your love. You are connected to everything with your feelings."
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"Love in your mind can be felt by some, love in your heart can be felt by many, but love in your soul can be felt by all."
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"A bland smile is like a green light at an intersection, it feels good when you get one, but you forget it the moment you're past it."
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"Temporary friends sometimes bring us to permanent blessings."
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"There is no communication with God without communication with God's people."
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"From that unremarkable gap in dense northern forest, I could finally see clearly that if I hadn't walked away from school, through devastating beauty alone on the Pacific Crest Trail, met rattlesnakes and bears, fording frigid and remote rivers as deep as I am tall-feeling terror and the gratitude that followed the realization that I'd survived rape-I'd have remained lost, maybe for my whole life. The trail had shown me how to change.This is the story of how my recklessness became my salvation.I wrote it."
Healing

"The trees were friendly, they gave me rest and shadowed refuge. Slipping through them, I felt safe and competent. My whole body was occupied. I had little energy to think or worry."
Nature

"She taught me only how to need to be taken care of. I was here because I needed to learn to take responsibility for making my own decisions - to earn my own trust."
Responsibility

"The wisdom of my body had cultivated vibrantly since those sadness-drunken months after the rape when I'd felt so numbed by the hurt and shame that I didn't move further. No longer. The way I felt about being sexually shamed had changed. Now I was angry that others were trying to shame my sexuality in the first place. I flushed-this time not in shame-but in rage."
Empowerment

"Death is not a pretty flower that had almost pricked me. It was not a small annoyance I could simply bypass and quickly disregard. It was really The End."
Death

"I sensed he was the one who might be able to see me clearly, the way I most wished to be seen."
Connection

"Though I was starved for contact, I didn't stop to talk to any of these strangers. I had forgotten how to convincingly speak the polite things strangers say to each other."
Loneliness

"I walked without breaks, slept through nights without waking, inhumanly smooth " a small machine."
Endurance

"I wanted both things: strength in my independence and also this new desire. This felt like the beginning of a new kind of love."
Independence

"I was promising myself strength.I had to write it, say it, make the effort and fake it before I actually believed I could do it."
Strength
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