"It's rare to be depressed and be in prime health. Healthy people tend to be happy people."

"You were born into this life equipped to succeed. You are a part of God's perfect plan. Yes, you. The plan would not be perfect if you were missing. Think about that. You matter more than you know."

"Courage is not beating up the bully or letting the bully beat you up, it is standing strong before the bully and seeing him for what he truly is: a child of God in need of an attitude adjustment."

"Don't ever let your day end in "could haves" and "should haves." Life is meant to be one experience after another. Say yes to everything that is good for you."

"A strong woman strengthens women. An empowered woman empowers women. When one woman rises we are all elevated."

"Want more energy? Drink water. Sleep deep. Love passionately. Eat clean. Forgive completely. Create something new."

"To improve quality of life, to evolve into a better version of ourselves, to pause in recognition of blessings with only our name on the tag, to dance in graitutde, to embrance with abandon, to give without receiving, to seek the face of God ... all this and more is why we exisit."

"If Christ is missing from your life, it isn't because He is lost."

"Christmas has a dark side. It's painful for those of us who lost loved ones during the holidays. What puts it back into sparkling perspective is knowing that Christ was born so that we might all be reunited again. That's the real sparkle in Christmas."

"The journey to the center of your soul doesn't start in your heart. It begins in your brain, and taking it makes you among the bravest of the brave for it's a place only the rare dare venture."

"The answer is in your dreams, the ones you dream while you're asleep and the ones you dream while you're awake."

"If you're giving to get, all you'll receive is disappointment. But if you're giving to give, all you'll receive is joy."

"If I give you and 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 form 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."

"A leader is someone who figures out the way, then gets out of the way so others can lead."

"Every woman is born with her own sense of style and idea of beauty. To stifle that is a sin as great as snuffing out a blossoming bud, a one-of-a-kind flower will never bloom again."

"When you're rearranging the furniture to make way for the decorations and the tree, make sure you rearrange your heart to make room for the Savior of Mankind."

"Hot cocoa and cold toes remind me of Christmas."

"Certain people will be upset when you speak the truth. They might get mad. They might get really mad. That's because they are still living the lie you've exposed. Stay strong. Speak truth. Do not allow yourself to get pulled back into their lie just to make others happy and yourself miserable. You are free. Stay free."

"Progress isn't about how fast or how far you are moving, it's about the direction your heart and body is pointed. Keep those aimed at your truest north and you'll get to where you want to be."

"It's not just the thought we think that matter; it's how we think them, how long we think them, and how often we think them. A thought has to be thought again and again in order for it to embed in our brains. So to fade a thought or get rid of it altogether, stop thinking it."

"Your conscious thoughts are those that you are aware of. But there are deeply buried treasures to be discovered in the shadows of your subconscious brain. Your find them by closing your eyes and seeing what you can't see with your eyes wide open. To open your mind you often have to close your eyes. Shut out the world to enter a different realm."

"How your brain developed during your first five years has had an enormous impact on how well you learn and cope today. Again, the most important thing to keep in mind is that you are made of cells and cells change. So even if you didn't get the best start, you can have a fantastic finish."

"Christmas is about giving from the heart more than giving from the store."

"Scrub your brain of any thoughts that don't serve you, and to fill your mind with fresh, clean thinking that instills confidence, commitment, and ultimate success."

"Nothing on this earth will empower you or change you more than knowing without doubt that God loves you."

"How we feel is not who we are. We might feel like failures, but as long as we are still trying, we are not failures. We are works in progress."

"True strength isn't being able to knock your enemies down, it's being able to hold yourself upright against their blows."

"No good can come from beating ourselves up for falling down-for feeling unhappy when we want to feel just the opposite."

"You are the only one who can dream your dreams."

"We labor under the great delusion that we are in control. Silly humans."

"We cannot control all the circumstances of our lives, but we can control our attitudes and our actions. If we don't, someone else will."

"Some of the most memorable paths I've taken have been detours."

"Smart thinking is to know what you think and why you think it."

"I didn't want to want what I wanted. I wanted to want what He wanted for me."

"If we are what we repeatedly do, how many times did you express gratitude today? Showing that you're grateful is the only way to be a grateful human being. Saying the words is not enough; you have demonstrate it through deeds."

"If you want to feel the truest spirit of Christmas, go out and find someone sadder than you, lonelier than you, poorer than you, and give what you can in a smile, in time, in compassion. The best Christmases always require the gift of self."

"A thought enters your brain and lasts an average of five seconds. The only way to keep it is to grab hold of it and claim it. The same applies to dreams. We forget most of our dreams because we never take the actions needed to make them our own."

"Any thought that you don't control has the power to become toxic."

"Anxiety is nothing more than prolonged fear. It comes with prolonged chemical release that does incalculable damage to your neurons over time."

"To step into God's will is a step into a different realm, even though your feet remain on firma terra."

"Never let anyone belittle your efforts to better yourself. Let them stand back or stand aside, but you move forward no matter who tries to stop you."

"You are brighter than the sunlight and bolder than a rainbow. You are the reason spring was created in the first place."