"Winning or losing achieves the same result--change."

"Even the smallest amount of light can push back the shadows."

"One of the hardest things you will ever have to go through is the death of a child. The second hardest thing you will ever have to go through is having a child die at Christmas time. The third hardest thing you will ever have to go through is telling your child that their friend and family member has passed away. The bittersweet moment that pulls you through it all is when your child says, "Mom don't cry. They're okay because they are with God now and they promise not to leave until they help you get through this."

"Dreams are built around the word hello, but in the end fate only knows the word goodbye."

"You didn't choose God. He chose you. When you stop feeling hurt by everyone and plotting your comeback, he has some very important things he wants you to accomplish with your life."

"When you don't have honesty in love then there is no communication. Honesty is improvisation of the heart, anything less is a well thought out and rehearsed script."

"The irony of rule followers is they often quote a lot of people that do not follow as many rules as they do."

"If a man, who says he loves you, won't tell you the details of a private conversation between him and another woman you can be sure he is not protecting your heart. He is protecting himself and the women he has feelings for. Wise women simply see things as they are, not as their low self-esteem allows."

"Happy people can look back and say they chose their life, not settled for it."

"Every woman that finally figured out her worth, has picked up her suitcases of pride and boarded a flight to freedom, which landed in the valley of change."

"Don't waste your time being what someone wants you to become, in order to feed their list of rules, boundaries and insecurities. Find your tribe. They will allow you to be you, while you dance in the rain."

"God will always deliver the truth when you have enough faith to believe in miracles."

"It doesn't matter who said it, as long as it changed you."

"Compassion is not something you have, it is something you share."

"Thoughts might not be solid and always obtainable, but they become your reality when emotions are attached to them. Over time, they become your wants and form an attachment to your behavior."

"The biggest lie women tell themselves about men: When I get what I want, I will be happy."

"Too many people spend their life in fear of making a mistake. However, here is the truth: Fear is the mistake. If you block out all the doubts and listen only to what you feel in your heart, then follow that course, you waste less time in indecision and spend more time being authentic. Life is too short to settle for parttime happiness."

"When you live with dignity no man will ever take it. Live without it and every boy will steal it."

"There is no perfection, only beautiful versions of brokenness."

"People who made their dreams come true didn't simply go after it. They changed the person they were, in order to fit the type of person that would live that type of dream."

"If he can't tell other women that he is happily married and acts in a way that suggests he isn't fully committed then he isn't happy. He is keeping his foot in the door for a better opportunity should it not work out with you. Real women don't need to investigate. They invest in their self confidence and worth by not allowing their man to disrespect them. They are not afraid to ask themselves the tough questions: Why am I letting this man humiliate me and value me less than others? Why have I allowed myself to become a doormat?"

"Writing romantic fiction is the second chance that loved ones denied us."

"Why would you ever premedicate honesty? To hesitate is to overthink how you feel. A blurted out answer is usually the most genuine."

"The Warrior Woman Code:A confident woman doesn't beg a man to stay, cry if they don't or need to tear down other women to be loved. She knows her value. When the person she is meant to be with finds her, that person will know it also. He won't be confused by it. He will fight for her because without her he feels incomplete. She will always be foremost in his mind above anyone else. She doesn't have to scheme to keep or entice him. She is okay walking away from him because she doesn't want to be seen as a choice or a woman that has some potential. She demands to be seen as "the one." To settle for anything less than that is an admission of insecurity and lack of self love."

"The biggest battles you face in love are the battle to know your worth and the battle to know when your boundaries need to be protected."

"A warrior doesn't worry. He or she evaluates the situation, investigates the source, calculates the risks and benefits, formulates a plan then puts it into action."

"The secret to your purpose is to find what you feel is important, and not pursue what others would think is important. When you think highly of yourself, me thinking highly of you will never be enough!"

"When you lower the definition of success to such a level that any person can reach it, you don't teach people to have big dreams; instead you inspirit mediocrity and nurture people's inadequacies."

"You have to recognize your inability to love before you can love the way God loves. His version of love is unfamiliar to the natural world, It is sacrificial and selfless and the most beautiful love you could experience."

"Somewhere between love and hate lies confusion, misunderstanding and desperate hope."

"Half of the time, the Holy Ghost tries to warn us about certain people that come into our life. The other half of the time he tries to tell us that the sick feeling we get in a situation is not the other person's fault, rather it is our own hang-ups. A life filled with bias, hatred, judgment, insecurity, fear, delusion and self-righteousness can cloud the soul of anyone you meet. Our job is never to assume,instead it is to listen, communicate, ask questions then ask more, until we know the true depth of someone's spirit."

"If your love for another person doesn't include loving yourself then your love is incomplete."

"What I find predictable is crazy people's ability to predict that unpredictable people can be predicted by their consistent unpredictable behavior, thus making all crazy people predictable when the world says they are unpredictable. Therefore, I must be "right" because I can predict crazy because I have been trained in the unpredictable nature of consistent craziness because I am crazy."

"I am not perfect, but if I looked perfect to everyone I must have been rocking imperfect perfectly to a few imperfect souls that seek imperfection vs. perfection, in an imperfect world where God asks us to seek perfection for our imperfect souls."

"You can't turn love off like a light switch. If you could it wouldn't be love. It is something that you keep on, until the bulb burns out or someone replaces it."

"There is nothing more entertaining then leaving someone speechless. Yet, there is nothing sadder than realizing that person was incapable of retaining half of what you said, and will repeat the story all wrong to someone else."

"Words matter, but what matters more than words is forgiveness and compassion."

"If you are hurting because they hurt then they are the ONE."

"Never keep your brain so full that people's opinions take up every pew in your mind, and truth has to be "born again" before it is believed."

"Having dignity doesn't require you to fall out of love with someone. You can love someone your entire life and not been in their life. It simply means you won't allow their actions or inactions to guide your future. The moment you feel derailed from your life purpose, in limbo or have to sell your worth, you have crossed over from love to desperation."

"Loyalty is what you focus on and won't give up."

"The problem with this generation is they are so quick to define who they are in the process of searching. It is their need for immediate acceptance that keeps them from exploring further."

"And when they dusted my mind for your fingerprints they found yours."

"Gratitudenoun \Eˆgra-tETM-EŒtA1⁄4d, -EŒtyA1⁄4d\ 1. The word thrown in your face by people who covet what you want and believe that your lack of contentment is a sin. Often, these people believe success is what you have already and obtaining anything else is optional, but not required."

"Spiritual pain is when you can't stand another moment not knowing the real truth, and when you finally do know you can't let go."

"Women of dignity know when to stop expecting loyalty when he won't even give you honesty."

"The way you think about yourself determines your reality. You are not being hurt by the way people think about you. Many of those people are a reflection of how you think about yourself."

"Nowhere in the bible did it say, "Only show compassion and empathy to those you can trust." If we did that, we would be burying homeless people every day."

"It is not the homeless, mentally ill or extremely cunning people that we have to be afraid of. When someone loses everything that meant something to them is when people should get very afraid. A person that has nothing to lose is the scariest person on earth."

"Your body is a temple, not a daily dumping ground for another person's pain, anger, betrayal, judgment, hypocrisy, denial, games, jealousy or blame. When you are being psychologically, spiritually or emotionally abused by a person, and they don't care how it hurts you, then it is time to leave what is polluting your relationship with God."