Don’t box your children in and tell them that everything is a sin. You’ll produce either rebels, or very boring people.

Throwing people away now, will not get rid of all the people that hurt you in your life. It won’t make up for all the wrong choices that you made with others in the past,...

I have always been a lone wolf and in the real sense of the word (people say it all the time but it’s usually not true.) I feel like I watch people and I wonder...

Eros (or call it lust if you will), is like a beautiful, magnificent Afghan Hound! A pure white Afghan Hound commanding respect and honor! But if you take the Afghan Hound and lock it in...

Many people do not fall in love; they fall in love with the idea of themselves being in love. They never see the other person. I don’t ask for much; I only ask to be...

We are all united by both pain and love. Both a smile and a wound. We are all united by these very basic yet very influential things, because we all recognize them, we all know...

There is some kind of a sweet innocence in being human- in not having to be just happy or just sad- in the nature of being able to be both broken and whole, at the...

Don’t be afraid of your fears. They’re not there to scare you. They’re there to let you know that something is worth it.

There is a law of the natural worlds (the spiritual and the physical) and this is something I have understood: that for every genuine existence, for every real manifestation and occurrence, there are are ten...

University can teach you skill and give you opportunity, but it can’t teach you sense, nor give you understanding. Sense and understanding are produced within one’s soul.

It’s definitely difficult being a woman and growing up a girl. When you’re graceful, people say you lack personality; when you’re serene, people say you’re boring; when you’re confident, people say you’re arrogant; when you’re...

If Cinderella were given a single shining epiphany (instead of a fairy godmother), she would have realized: “This is my father’s house. This is my father’s estate. I am the rightful heiress to everything here!”...

If you buy an egg thinking it’s a goose’s egg, and when it hatches it is actually a bird of paradise; no manner of convincing and reproach will turn the bird of paradise into a...

No man was born in chains; it is their fellow man who has put them in chains, and at any given time, every single man and woman has the absolute right to break free from...

There is a single truth, it filters through different stories and languages because people come from different cultures and speak different languages. And this truth has manifested itself through millennia, in multiple ways. Different people...

Some people come and go and are forgotten. But there are other people who share a part in our destinies. They come, they go, but they are never forgotten. They come, they go, but even...

When you trust and you lose— it is because you were wrong to trust and what you believed was merely a phantom. But when you doubt and you lose— it is because in your wanting...

Too many people are endowed with a feeling of entitlement, but born without God-given empathy.

There is such a thirst to be known, isn’t there? What is it about being known that would cause us to hunger so much after it, at any cost? I’m afraid too many of us...

Herein lies the beauty of the flaw: that a shortcoming is a spiritual sign that says “Look! There is a perfect opportunity right here to grow and become better!” But instead of seeing those signs,...

If you were not cast into the abyss, you would have never groped, reached as far as you could reach, to grasp for anything that you could possibly touch, anything that you could possibly feel...

I truly am %100 convinced that, if you want to raise knights and noble women, you must teach your children the philosophies of old. I have been teaching my son ancient philosophies since he was...

The most important things in a romantic relationship are compromise, honesty, openness, humility and trust. If you don’t have these with someone, you don’t have anything.

We have to allow ourselves to be loved by the people who really love us, the people who really matter. Too much of the time, we are blinded by our own pursuits of people to...

In case you never get a second chance: don’t be afraid!” “And what if you do get a second chance?” “You take it!

Politeness is okay, but it gets old and boring. You want to attack life with a passion, not a politeness, you want people to think about you and remember you and say “she is so...

Yesterday I was sad, today I am happy! Yesterday I had a problem, today I still have the same problem! But today I changed the way I look at it!

I have realized; it is during the times I am far outside my element that I experience myself the most. That I see and feel who I really am, the most! I think that’s what...

It’s the hard things that break; soft things don’t break. It was an epiphany I had today and I just wonder why it took me so very, very long to see it! You can waste...

Life is not compassionate towards victims. The trick is not to see yourself as one. It’s never too late! I know I’ve felt like the victim in various situations in my life, but, it’s never...

The theory of positivity teaches us to, “always look on the bright side” and to, “point out the bright side to others”. However, any highly empathic individual will know, that this mindset alienates us from...

It has been said that life only gives us what we can handle. But this is not the case. Life often kills us, that’s the truth. But that’s how phoenixes are born.

I feel that we are often taken out of our comfort zones, pushed and shoved out of our nests, because if not, we would never know what we could do with our wings, we would...

And at that moment, Thibaut knew he was a murderer. He had murdered his brother that night; he had taken away his brother’s soul.

Loo, life is black and white. You don’t know what’s good for you, because you don’t see the black and white! You don’t see where the black lines end and where the white lines begin!...

I think the reason why people’s relationships fail, really, is due to the fact that people are always putting their best feet forward all the time and not letting others actually “meet” them. The “meeting”...

It takes a really long time to realize this, but if you’re lucky you eventually see that you’ve got this life on this planet and you’re responsible for really loving yourself. And I mean really,...

I believe the most difficult situation to be in, is one of mind-game-playing. Interestingly enough, it can be observed that it’s those from the most prosperous countries that tend to play the most mind-games with...

Today I wondered why my eyelashes aren’t thick enough and why my feet aren’t small enough. Then it hit me. Why do we take these insignificant things like millimeters on lashes and shoeboxes and then...

He’s better now, Loo. He’s taking care of the cats.

In all things in this life, we are told “It’s okay if you don’t make it the first time!”, “It’s fine if you don’t get it right the first time, just try again and again!”...

Maybe we shouldn’t be looking for love. Maybe we should be looking for a person. Because maybe you can find love in a person, but not have that person. So if you look for love,...

Cake is happiness! If you know the way of the cake, you know the way of happiness! If you have a cake in front of you, you should not look any further for joy!

Anger is an essential part of being human. People are taught to deny themselves anger, and in this, they are actually opening themselves up to hate. The more you deny yourself the freedom to be...

Maybe we shouldn’t begin to stop believing in God when He starts to let go of our hand; because at that moment He begins to let go of your hand, that’s the moment He’s begun...

You can see the whole entire world in the eyes of a person who knows how to simply stand there and take all of it into him but then you can look into the eyes...

Thus is the nature of love: that you must use it! A love unused is not love! If it is something that sits on the shelf that you don’t know what to do with, it...

Freedom is not the absence of commitment, and to be committed to something or to someone does not mean the loss of freedom. But freedom exists in the realm of the unbound and to be...

I am a broken person. And I know exactly where my cracks are and how deep they run. I don’t pretend to not be a broken person and therein lies the big difference. Because the...

There are two kinds of friendship: the beneficial friendship and the erroneous friendship. The erroneous friendship balances on the principle of “the closer we are, the more okay it is for me to say anything...