"A writer writes knowing that nothing else will elicit the same kind of satisfaction and personal triumph as molding the written word into a reader's great experience."

"Artistry exists in everyone. What makes it blossom is a soul's personal desire to find an outlet for expression."

"Love is years of devotion, sacrifice, commitment, loyalty, trust, faith, and friendship all wrapped up in one. True love does more than cause your heart to flutter. It upholds your heart when the infatuation no longer makes it flutter."

"On a grim and dismal day that shattered my last ounce of confidence, I broke down and whimpered, "I'm awful and hideous and incompetent and boring and utterly useless. And then you grinned at me and said, "That's okay."

"On Easter we wrap up pretty, little decorated eggs symbolizing life and renewal. We do this because of the intangibility of a promised gift, which is the eventual resurrection of the body, restored to its finest forever state. Easter celebrates life and the idea of its eternal value, most notably the life of the gift-giver who demands nothing in return. He is your Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ."

"Past and Present I know well; each is a friend and sometimes an enemy to me. But it is the quiet, beckoning Future, an absolute stranger, with whom I have fallen madly in love."

"No matter how hard they try, they'll never create anything so perfectly beautiful as what plays out in my own imagination."

"People search the world over looking for someone to love them, when they should be searching for someone to love."

"Thousands of hopeful days came to naught before this one. This was a golden day. Never give up."

"Why hasn't someone lassoed a few teenagers and had them sit down and write out all the supposed answers they have so we can solve the world's problems already?"

"The key to success is having no qualms about failure."

"It is a greater triumph for the fearful soul who tries and fails than for the fearless who succeed."

"Do we ignore the needyto spite the greedy?Or share and defenddespite those who pretend?"

"Perfection may be an island out of reach, but setting your sails toward it makes for a magnificent voyage."

"Ha ha ha ha! Tee-hee-hee!Mwa-ha mwa-ha!Kee kee kee!Ho ho ho ho! Haw-hee-haw! Heh heh heh heh!Gah guffaw! Hoo hoo hoo hoo!Hoi hoi-eee!Ba ha ha ha! Tsee tsee tsee!Giggle, titter,snicker, crow,laughter makesmy 'happy' grow!"

"I never realized how much you meant to me until someone spoke your name and an irrepressible, goofy grin stretched my lips."

"I felt ashamed for having judged him so harshly without knowing the real boy. His one offense against me-goaded by Charlie's bullying character-was easy to forgive."

"Perfection is a paradigm meant to keep us striving and learning and growing. Like a wondrous sunset, perfection may be beyond our reach, but it is within our view and well worth seeking after."

"Hallelujah songcarries on a gentle wind,heralding a king."

"We change when circumstances necessitate it, we adapt because we have to. The real challenge is to change when circumstances don't demand it at all."

"No one can convince a man of his erring ways as persuasively as experience."

"Don't ignore me. I only get more annoying."

"Giving advice is like seeing an elephant in someone's path and suggesting they remove it. Heeding advice requires forcing the elephant to budge. Huge difference."

"It's advice, not a commandment.Don't swallow it whole until you're absolutely sure you've been given good, healthy advice."

"If you suffer lingering doubts; if the consolation you cling to is 'it will probably be okay,' then run the other way because what you're contemplating is not a good choice."

"It is in the midst of laughter that our perspective alters and we realize this trying life can still be enjoyed."

"Face it; life's gonna chew you up and spit you out. If you're lucky you'll get stuck to the bottom of someone's shoe and be carried far, far away from it all."

"A pumpkin lives but once a year when someone sets its soul afire and on that night it stirs up fear until its flame is snuffed.But e'en one night of eerie light is fright enough."

"Forgive and forget is the divine ideal. Grappling with the hurt while biting your tongue and struggling to refuse justifiable vengeance-that's closer to human reality."

"You need tell me nothing, I already know your heart. Through your simplest choices you've given yourself away."

"A good dose of fantasy is exercise for your sensibilities, it keeps your avatar strong."

"When you devalue ethics and morals by proclaiming that our attitude toward them should be casual or lenient, you can't be surprised by a rising generation who then behaves disrespectfully, treating life, people, and choices as if they possess little value or worth. For whether or not that was the intention, society has taught them to believe thusly."

"I'm not asking you to walk in my shoes, I'd never wish my afflictions on anyone. But could you walk beside me on secure ground and reach to hold my hand?"

"The coldest day in fallis at the Hallows Evening ballwhere ghoulish funavoids the sunas monsters mingle wall to wall."

"The key to a better life isn't always a change of scenery. Sometimes it simply requires opening your eyes."

"Perhaps, if you weren't so busy regarding my shortcomings, you'd find that I do possess redeeming qualities, discreet as they may be. I notice when the sky is blue. I smile down at children. I laugh at any innocent attempt at humor. I quietly carry the burdens of others as though they were my own. And I say 'I'm sorry' when you don't. I am not without fault, but I am not without goodness either."

"Twitter is a serious writing distraction. As are grapefruits. The two have nothing else in common."

"Life's journey doesn't start on the highest mountain peak where a clear view of the trail ahead, obstacles and all, is laid out for us to observe before setting foot on the path. No. Life's journey begins on a low road, in a valley, or even down inside a pit where the trail beyond can only be seen in short stretches, and any obstacles are met as they come. This makes life trying, even scary at times. Have faith that God gave you this life, and hence it is worth seeing through to the end of the trail."

"My soul, I've found, has puppet strings to make me droop or give me wings.And music is the puppeteerthat turns my ear to hear."

"The interruption did nothing but earn her a similar slap, as I'm sure she knew it would. Sometimes I wondered if my mother spoke up at the wrong time on purpose. As often as we endured my father's abuse, she had to be aware that it wouldn't save me from a beating but simply earn her one as well. Or was it that sharing my fate made her feel less guilt-ridden about those things that happened to me?"

"Chameleonesque, hobbitish, unicorned, stompled, selfishism, and unwakeable may not be real words, but you do know what they mean."

"The irony of life: Realizing a lifetime is barely long enough to figure out how it should have been lived."

"If you feel like a nearly-drowned rat that's been dragged through the mud, all twisted up inside your mother's borrowed, prized quilt, having been tossed about by gale force winds that managed to entangle you in barbed wire one-thousand miles from your goal in the middle of a hot, barren nowhere void of any basic necessities-then congratulations! You're no observer but an actual participant in the game of life! Stand up and keep living."

"Because," said a boy."Because why?" asked a young girl."Because I love you."

"There are hundreds of reasons to be kind, but only one that matters-because it's who you are."

"Wise men come to seea child of greater wisdomand honor divine."

"Rest assured you make perfectly good nonsense. I understand you one-hundred-percent not at all."

"If you've put a smile on someone's face today, you've done more good than you know."

"Prayer, faith, and vision, plus real effort too.Blend them together for one potent brew.The magical spell to your dreams coming true."

"New light in the skyannounces a sacred birth.Shine brightly young star."