I’m so blessed,” when you’re suffering. To do the first is effortless. The masses do it, that’s how easy it is. To do the latter requires something greater: strength, faith and gratitude – no matter...

If I blink she’ll disappear,” he told her. She looked at him and said,”Maybe that is the best thing for you.

The spider’s web: She finds an innocuous corner in which to spin her web. The longer the web takes, the more fabulous its construction. She has no need to chase. She sits quietly, her patience...

Soul mates may be linked, but fight to separate, causing wounds and confusion. They teach what no one else can.

She wasn’t always a pillar of ice. Her warmth and good deeds were repaid with deceit and betrayal until little by little a chill took over.

Truth and integrity must be so rare these days that it confuses people when they hear it.

Anyone can be polite to a stranger. Anyone can remain charming when spending time with an acquaintance, but what about those with whom we have familiarity? We hurt, offend and piss off the ones we...

I smile when I want to cry. I laugh when I want to die.

Intense feelings of any kind keep people with you. Some you may want, others you won’t. To forget people, and you never really forget, feel indifference.

Nocturnal with a love for night, I’d stay up to see sunlight…

Warriors want a worthy opponent. There is no redress in fighting the pathetic.

Who are we to think we deserve anything? What makes us so great? No one is “lucky” to have us. We are all full of it.

If it’s danger you seek you can go to war, blow the whistle on someone powerful, piss off someone unhinged, walk in a field during a lightning storm, tease a rattlesnake, or lose yourself in...

Tolerance. In all my years of debating politics and religion no mind was changed with derision and no thought convicted by way of harshness. You have no right to demand tolerance while deriding others and...

When other girls were dreaming about love, she dreamt of love too, but in an entirely different context – the ones they took for granted.

If there had once been a chance and there had once been love, then it will still be there in spite of time and obstacles. If you can get past that, you can get past...

Can I be trusted? Can you? I can be trusted with some things, but not all things, just like you.

I’m drawn to unusual, even freakish people. Why? They are far more engaging than the ordinary, which the world has too much of.

I don’t envy “busy.” Busy means having a schedule, not living life. What I really covet is leisure and peace of mind. Those who have both, have it all.

It’s effortless to let go of self-absorbed people. It’s challenging to let go of someone you care about and it’s exceedingly difficult to let go of an ideal and a belief in someone because what...

I’ve seen you around. You liken yourself a bad ass, and darlin’, you are. Minus the bad.

I wonder if pain comes from surrendering or resisting?

One woman’s definition of success may not be another’s. Is success, as the world defines it, an accomplishment in a society this sick?

She doesn’t give directions but there is a pot of gold at the end of her rainbow…Find it. If you can.

I’d rather meander through a pit of vipers than love one more person, but since I’m on the subject of snakes, we all know one, or are one.

People don’t want words, as seductive, pleasant and warming as they can be. People want to see that they’re worth some sacrifice or some great deed. And it’s not that people are always worth it,...

Neither one of them could turn off their feelings, even with so much time and distance between them. The more they were apart, and the more they weren’t allowed to be together, the more they...

Some people are far more cognizant than others but sensitivity has its own cross to bear and ample insight, in many cases, can bring on disquietude.

Speaking of happiness, those distinctive moments are found outdoors – in the fall, in the winter and always in the mountains where people are few, wildlife is abundant and there is peace in the quiet.

Masks are elaborate and everyone has one. It takes a while to get to know people. This doesn’t make them mysterious, it makes them like everyone else.

Regret is her companion and the one who whispers to her often. She has even let hope die and that brings about despair.

The worst feeling when speaking with someone or receiving a gift from them is knowing they feel obligated to.

The air is cold and dusk has descended. In the distance lightning flickers and a far away rumble of thunder awakens my thoughts and makes me remember.

Don’t start a fight if you can’t duke it out. Either win or concede but whatever you do, don’t have others fight for you.

If I never shed a tear or wondered what happened to someone I actually loved, what makes you believe I’d think twice about you, someone I never even cared for?

How different would people act if they couldn’t show off on social media? Would they still do it?