If you have to convince someone to stay with you, then they have already left.

Often people that settle in life are those that only do what they can with what they have and where they are. Never settle for someone that didn’t know your worth from the beginning, or...

The healthy should be reminded that we are all dying because it is through our own reminder of mortality that we accelerate our good intentions, into actions people can see.

If two people truly have feelings for one another then they don’t have an affair. They get a divorce and they sort out their feelings. You are accountable for the people you hold hostage in...

Heroes are not made. They are born out of circumstances and rise to the occasion when their spirit can no longer coexist with the hypocrisy of injustice to others.

Humility is not a one time lesson that comes when you have lost everything. It is a daily reminder of how far we have come, yet still short of who we can be through HIS...

Tolerance is nothing more than patience with boundaries.

Design a life! Don’t maintain it.

Apathetic people sit back and wait for things to get better before they move. Radical people make things get better, by how they move.

Sometimes you can’t figure out the truth because you’re asking people that are emotionally or socially invested in you to be brutally honest. Often family or friends will tell you what you want to hear,...

God knew I was different and gave me these beautiful wings because he meant for me to fly. You see…I wasn’t meant to be like you. I was meant to be me–better.

The changes we make in life often happen when we have a degree of certainty. However, the pain of our past failures and the fears of our peers often fuel our uncertainty. This inability to...

Sometimes, God doesn’t send you into a battle to win it; he sends you to end it.

The battle you are going through is not fueled by the words or actions of others; it is fueled by the mind that gives it importance.

I have always found it odd that people who think passive aggressively ignoring a person is making a point to them. The only point it makes to anyone is your inability to articulate your point...

It is better to stay single and wait for the one that makes sense then to marry someone that makes absolutely no sense. The moment you settle is when the one person that makes all...

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.

People are going to come into your life, and God is going to use them to help you. To them you’re insignificant and don’t matter. They are not going to understand you, or even see...

The only way you will ever be free is when you decide you have had enough of living up to the standards other people force upon you through shame. Never wear their chains of judgment...

To have a different life you have be a different person. You have to do what you haven’t done. You have to become the person that fits that dream. But most of all, you have...

Whenever you can’t balance what you see with what you believe you have conflict.

Peace can only be achieved by a contrite spirit, open communication and tolerance.

Often what people don’t say or leave out, tells the real story.

No one is ever a victim of life; we are all volunteering to grow.

Don’t ever get to the point where you can’t be taught because life is a classroom and everyone owns a pen.

God always brings someone into your life that has traveled the same path and knows the rocks you climbed to get to the end of the trail.

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.

Every writer dreams about the day they can step into their fiction and wander its hallways.

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.

The purpose of any healthy relationship is to find someone that will magnify your life’s experiences, not tolerate it or become a spectator of it.

True love is the tide that pulls out to sea, but always returns to kiss the shore at sunrise.

We are stronger than stigma, but until more celebrity role models openly discuss mental illness we will still be stereotyped as less than capable, by an upside down world that thinks reality television is actually...

Marriage creates one world for your child. For that alone, two old friends can try to see a peaceful world through the eyes of their angels.

Your dignity can be mocked, abused, compromised, toyed with, lowered and even badmouthed, but it can never be taken from you. You have the power today to reset your boundaries, restore your image, start fresh...

Personality begins where comparison leaves off. Be unique. Be memorable. Be confident. Be proud.

You are not what others think you are. You are what God knows you are.

I rather spend every Sunday of my life hanging off a cliff to rescue someone than spend one more time sitting in a pew next to hypocrites that talk about what they will do to...

Allowing a person or thing to leave your life, without further pain is the basis of humanity. Everything else is the reason (theology).

Conformity begins the moment you ignore how you feel for acceptance.

All great beginnings start in the dark, when the moon greets you to a new day at midnight.

Your job is to get off your self righteous butt and start reaching out to the difficult people because my ministry wasn’t about a bunch of nice people getting together once a week to sing...

When you forgive those that hurt you, they no longer have control over your future happiness. Their anger keeps them a prisoner to your past, while you enjoy the present.

Everyone’s life is an evolution of emotions, spirit and beliefs. The storyline changes, plots thicken, main characters mature and new spiritual journeys begin. This is true of inspirational authors. Their books represent only the stages...

You might lose battles in your life time. However, every person that stands bravely on the side of justice, for people that have no voice, wins the true battle—Gods.

Delusions are hardly an escape from reality. It’s a way of understanding insane people living in a backwards world.

If you want to discover the true character of a person, you have only to observe what they are passionate about.

L I V E or E V I L — to Live life is to spell forward. To not live life is to spell backwards.

If there was any great lesson in life it was this: No battle was ever won with silence.

A goal will always tell you where you don’t want to be.

Sometimes the silence of your friends is worse than your enemy’s words.