"Let them see you cry. Let them see you sweat. Let them see you bleed. Those three drops make you human. Never fear to show your humanity. It's the bravest act of all."

"Just because we've made poor or wrong choices in the past, does not limit us from making wise and good choices now."

"Friends don't come ready-made or one-size-fits-all. True friends are always custom fit and one-of-a-kind, just for you."

"Dreams are blueprints and what good are blueprints until a carpenter goes to work? Dream big, and bold and brazen, but then get off your butt and do the work to realize your own dreams."

"Where you dare to venture where you have not gone before, you will return somehow changed."

"Fair mindedness doesn't require a lot of thought, it requires a lot of bravery."

"Attractive souls are different than beautiful souls. Attractive souls take care of their outward appearance for appearance sake. Beautiful souls care for themselves inwardly and outwardly, so they can be of value to themselves and to others."

"When you're planning the perfect Christmas, the gifts, the lights, the decorations, the paries, the cards, don't forget the most important item on the list-Christ."

"Think about what you are thinking about. Be aware of your own thoughts!"

"An attitude is much deeper than just our emotions or the thoughts we think. It's a decision we make based on our core beliefs and values."

"Christmas is not a date on a calendar. It's more than a state of mind. It's a condition of the heart."

"Three things to help keep your brain cells awake and alert ... drink plenty of clean water, get plenty of deep sleep, and let your imagination soar to places it's never dared venture."

"They said she could not do it. But she didn't listen so when she did it. And when they stood in awe, she did not hear their applause. The only validation she needed came from the voice inside her head. The voice that had always been there saying, "You got this."

"The roadmap to a rich, rewarding life is to follow your passion, to be willing to deviate, to never dull to the dawn of a new day and all of the possibilities it holds for adventure and discovery."

"I do not know the answers to life's hard questions, but I do know the One who knows them and that's sufficient...for now."

"An attitude adjustment from the inside out is what it will take to get you to change direction. The truth is God is on your side, no matter how far you've wandered. He still loves you. He still needs you. Your sins don't define you. He does."

"Want to be a good friend? Here's what a friend does well: they listen, they stand by you, they tell you the brutal truth, they cause your tears from time to time, but then help you wipe them dry, they laugh with you, a lot, they don't bring up your bad memories, they try to love the people you love, they go places with you at the most inconvenient times, they laugh some more, they create experiences and a string of memories held together by love, mostly that's what they do, they love you even when you don't love you."

"When your resources are focused on what has been you cannot create all that can still be."

"Dreamers Can."

"We've all got voices inside our heads and over time they blend into a mental orchestra that all sounds the same. This is where we assume every voice we hear is our own even though that is not true."

"To understand God we must understand ourselves. If I give you an apple and ask you, "What is that? you reply, "An apple."How do you know it's an apple?"Because it just is."How did it get to be an apple?"It came from an apple."Exactly. So when I ask you, 'What are you?' you can honestly say, 'I am a child of God because I came from God."

"You're a biological wonder without precedent."

"When you compare yourself against someone else, you always lose."

"The only way to take command of your life is to realize that you are never going to be in control of it."

"The path you do not take today is the path you will regret not taking tomorrow."

"Have you ever come out of a dramatic, chaotic situation and said, "I did everything I could, and it wasn't enough?That's because "everything we can isn't enough. It's only enough when our everything joins with Christ's everything."

"The most destructive thing we can possibly do in life is to make another person doubt his worth and identity as a child of God. The very most productive thing we can do is to help ourselves and others realize that as children of God, our worth is infinite."

"Your body is a complete marvel. The more you study its anatomy and how each part works in harmony, the more you will be convinced that you didn't just evolve. You were designed from the beginning by the hand of a Master."

"You will never get to a new place by walking an old path."

"Variety in your diet is health in your life."

"Your past isn't there to decide who you are, it's there to guide you to a better version of yourself."

"Here's the three-ingredient recipe for a glorious day: think a higher thought, move your feet forward, serve someone you've never served. Do those three things and your life will improve in a millisecond."

"If you truly believe something you will attempt to live it. Otherwise you don't really believe it."

"God is not someone you meet when you die. His smiling face will be the first and the most familiar to greet you on the other side of mortality. You'll recognize Him and know in your heart of hearts that you're not entering a new sphere, but returning home to the place you've always belonged."

"You don't remember the gifts you are given, you remember the giver and how their love made you feel."

"The only way you're going to be defeated is if you allow your brain to shut down your body. If you stop making progress, you're damned."

"The easy path is seldom the right path."

"Jesus was a hiker. The wilderness was His retreat."

"Exercise is life in motion. MOVE to LIVE!"

"The hardest decision of the day is always the first decision you must make. It's the choice you make to TRY."

"How many of us even know what our default state of being is? Check yours at random times; reset it to positive, grateful, disciplined or faithful. Don't ever let it idle on negative, greedy, lax or doubtful."

"All paths eventually lead home."

"The origin of the word fail means to stop functioning. So as long as you haven't stopped, you haven't failed."

"If a tiny bud dares unfold to a wakening new world, if a narrow blade of grass dares to poke its head up from an unlit earth, then surely I can rise and stretch my winter weary bones, surely I can set my face to the spring sun. Surely, I too can be reborn."

"When we think we can manage our time, our circumstances, and our relationships without His help and inspiration, we know what unmanageability is."

"We might give God our tithing, our material possessions, even our time and talents, but those are not really ours to begin with. They are gifts on loan. What is ours is the only genuine sacrifice we can lay on the altar-total submission."

"Don't be defined by someone else's definition of you."

"Being meek does not make you weak. You're not someone who sways with changing circumstances. You don't allow yourself to be used. You're not passive or spineless. Your faith is in the Almighty, so you know that you are mighty."

"Life tends to deliver on what we order, so when you think I'm worthless, you get a life fitting what thought. When you think I'm fabulous, you get that."

"Don't try to wring out all the answers before you move forward. Faith doesn't work that way. Step into the darkness and the light will appear to guide your next step. It's that first step into the unknown that stops us from progressing."