"Mirror, mirror on the wall, I have placed you in my hallWhere I wander every day.Echo beauty, and you'll stay."

"Your life is not a simulation, it's the real game. Play wisely."

"Dreams become reality once the dreamer goes beyond imagining and acts them out."

"I wish the hearts of human beings pumped with kind desires.I wish every gaze landed on the eyes of others compassionately.I wish hatred, envy, and vengeance were alien concepts to humankind.I wish the precious worth of every soul was universally understood."

"Through sheer volume of passing days you will travel a great distance in your lifetime. Imagine where you might stand if your footsteps steered toward a single goal."

"She imagined him leaning against the shuttle, entertaining thoughts of scolding her for dressing like a ragged commoner. Never mind that her present outfit was light years ahead in comfort.(Actually, he's wishing he had been less critical of you earlier. He feels bad that you won't acknowledge his presence, and he blames himself.)(Quit it, Ian. I'm not going to feel sorry for him.)She caught her protector's shrewd grin, highlighted by the fire's glow. (You already do, Queenie.)(This talent of yours is really annoying.)He leaned close to her ear and whispered, "That's not what you thought earlier when you wanted to get ahold of Efren. "One tiny rosebud in a handful of thorns, she retorted."

"As sunlight is for flowers, and sustenance for the mortal shell, music is for the human soul."

"Life is a love story, with every character yearning for permanent refuge in someone's heart."

"Choose altruism, because selfishism is a lonely, cold, dark hole."

"Stubbornness is a weapon.People tend to draw it out when a sensitive part of their identity is threatened-be it dignity, honor, pride, desires, etc. If loaded with righteous resolve, stubbornness can assist in overcoming obstacles and achieving great feats; however, more often than not it is loaded with anger, used as a means of destruction for both the possessor and those whom he turns his weapon upon. It is best utilized by wise individuals who are able to dispassionately perceive if their stubbornness will accomplish good, or if it should be put away and replaced by a humble substitute to spare the lives of everyone affected."

"Mary and Josephhuddle snugly together.They cradle God's son."

"Night helps us appreciate daylight, while lengthy days make us yearn for a good stretch of night."

"There would be no cloud-nine days without rock-bottom moments left below."

"Born on straw at nightunder low stable rafters,Baby Jesus cried."

"Despair is not for the living but for those unable to rise and continue; they are the only souls with a right to it. It is an end where breath and strength and will have vanished, leaving no way to persevere. To sink into the abyss that is despair is to suffer an existence far worse than death; therefore, cling to its enemy, our ally-hope. For life goes on, and we must not live in despair. We must not."

"Dogs are loyal friends, and if they could talk, your secrets would still be safe. (If my cat could talk, I'd have to let the dog eat her.)"

"What's in a name? The accumulation of reputations from all who've owned it before you."

"When gossip starts, be deaf."

"Oh, how terribly backwards, and yet sadly common, it is to sit scowling at family all the day long and then quickly put on a smile for strangers who drop by."

"Someday my children will look fondly on the annoying things I did and see them clearly as evidence of love."

"Though I may accumulate a great deal of riches in this world, it is only my wealth of knowledge, talents, and emotional bonds that I keep when I leave."

"Changing your attitude, your outlook, your mindset, perspective, disposition, or mood-they all mean controlling where you allow your thoughts to linger."

"I don't believe that the course of anyone's lifetime has ever been as unerring as that of the rising and setting sun, but I know many lives that have been just as inspiring."

"Oh, how clearly I see your faults! Such distinctly highlighted flaws; it's as if the sun and moon mean to keep them illuminated in my eyes. My mind is quick to spell out a simple remedy for those defects. But alas, poor me! My own faults-which I only assume to have because all do-are blurred and obscured by a mental fog. I've no eyes with which to gaze back at myself. The sun and moon refuse their illumination, and my mind offers no sure elixir but a complex recipe scribbled in foreign words I scarcely comprehend."

"A thought can prompt. Words can stir. But it takes action to attain a dream."

"Raindrops fall from clouds of gray.The fragile flowers grow.Teardrops seem all I can say.They speak of endless woe.Your fingers wipe my grief away.A seed of love you sow.A hardened heart reverts to clay.You mold my love just so."

"I can't force your lips to smile, but I can show them how easily mine do."

"You baffle me, addle me, drive me insane. You muddle, befuddle, and rattle my brain. My senses are mad, Skewed judgment to blame.You drive me half stark-raving bonkers! (But the truly crazy thing is how I love it.)"

"Life's greatest lessons were not shown to me, read to me, illustrated or explained to me; they happened to me."

"Alas, impatience is but another form of unhappiness. It is true, it is true. I have never met a happy impatient person."

"When my problems seem overwhelming and impossible to solve, I hold fast to these facts: God is real, He is right, and He cares."

"You were formed inside a borrowed womb-a nourishing safe haven for months-then delivered through painful effort and sacrifice by a woman willing to give you the precious gift of life. That truth alone deserves your gratitude and respect."

"How frustrating to think you can be lost to yourself. And yet how often it is that a stranger stares back at you from the mirror. Maybe in truth we never see ourselves as clearly as the thousands of eyes that daily take us in."

"It is an incapacitating emotion one feels upon hearing the whispered words "I still love you" after deeply hurting that soul. Forgiveness isn't weakness.It is power."