No matter how hard they try, they’ll never create anything so perfectly beautiful as what plays out in my own imagination.

When words can’t make it better, hold my hand and don’t let go.

Live your day and live it well. It’s yours whether you want it or not.

Through sheer volume of passing days you will travel a great distance in your lifetime. Imagine where you might stand if your footsteps steered toward a single goal.

Lying is wrong. When you tell a lie for the sake of sparing someone’s feelings it is not suddenly right, but it is compassionate. And is not compassion a form of love? Love—the greatest of...

I can and will improve the world.I will smile, show kindness, and be grateful.I refuse to be unhappy.

What you perceive as a failure today may actually be a crucial step towards the success you seek. Never give up.

It is a pleasurable thing to earn the admiration of others, but it is a far better feeling to honestly admire thyself.

Christmas, when observed with the right spirit, still has the power to call miracles from Heaven to Earth.

The fact is, the man who’d begotten me didn’t want me. In his eyes I should never have been born. And perhaps that would’ve been best. As it was, my existence had proven to be...

There are no real start-overs, only start-from-heres.

The least effort is the feat most likely to be accomplished.

I write so others might contemplate things that are out of the ordinary. I write to make people feel—to cause laughter and tears and anger at injustice. I write so the world will imagine and...

Dare to forge your own path. Even rocks can roll.

Do it again.Play it again. Sing it again. Read it again. Write it again. Sketch it again. Rehearse it again. Run it again. Try it again.Because again is practice, and practice is improvement, and improvement...

Though it pained me, I gave in. Why was it that I repeatedly succumbed to the first whisper of a promised maybe? How did the enticer, hope, always find my heart unguarded? There was no...

True love asks no question of the heart. It knows with surety.

There are days when writing is within my power and a story unfolds along a course I’ve already chosen. And then there are days when the words breathe on their own and take me by the...

Faith to me is trusting in every evidence that something is―that it is possible, that it is significant, that it is real.

I wish everyone had someone who never popped their balloons.

Dreams aren’t finish lines to be reached at the close of a race. They don’t suddenly materialize, fulfilled, where the road ends. The entire journey is included in the dream―all of it from beginning to...

You will find there are times you must grasp your life with both hands and forcefully steer it in a new direction and then strain to hold your course until the storms of fear, weakness,...

It is a sweet thing to have a husband love you, but it is a far sweeter thing when his actions convince your heart, and his words persuade your soul.

It is an incapacitating emotion one feels upon hearing the whispered words “I still love you” after deeply hurting that soul. Forgiveness isn’t weakness.It is power.

To wish for the happiest days is to wish for a season of sorrow; for it is only after prolonged, wintry darkness that the summer sun appears to shine at its brightest.

Why is it we must suffer the loss of something so dear before we realize what a treasure we had?Why must the sun be darkened before we feel how genuinely impossible it is to live...

Christmas is our annual reminder to look up—pondering celestial stars, to look out—serving those in need, and to look down—glorifying our Lord in humble prayer.

Home is where ‘I know you’, ‘I accept you’, ‘I forgive you’, and ‘I love you’ are most likely to be heard.

Between here and there is a journey illuminated by the rising and setting of a radiant sun. Don’t miss its splendor in your all-fired hurry to cross the finish line.

I could really use someone else’s smile today.

Love is not complicated—just smile, hug, kiss, be kind, and repeat.

Write the ending first and then you’ll know before the opening sentence that it’s going to be a good book.

I’m generally quite happy until someone tells me I’m not. I don’t see how they know I’m not, but suddenly I feel less happy.

The night creeps in by subtle degrees while a show of fierce colors attracts and distracts me. I look up, suddenly aware of remote lights scattered overhead. I gasp as the last streak of fire...

Why hasn’t someone lassoed a few teenagers and had them sit down and write out all the supposed answers they have so we can solve the world’s problems already?

Zahvalnost ne menja pejzaž oko nas. Ona samo pere prozor kroz koji ga posmatramo, pa jasno vidimo boje.

In the heat of an argument I sometimes resort to thumb-sucking. It’s hard to have a serious fight when someone’s sucking their thumb.

It’s going to be okay, Gwen, I promise.”—from “Phantom’s Veil

We always feel the brunt of the blow dealt to us, but hardly ever do we feel the impact we have on others. Why is that?

In other words, ‘I told you so!’

When a person boldly declares, ‘You can’t,’ he might as well add on, ‘Can you?’, knowing that this spoken roadblock only serves to fuel a challenge in naturally stubborn souls.

True love takes time. It’s an earned comfort that tells you she’ll be right there beside you no matter what you do, not necessarily happy with your every action, but faithful to you just the...

Your mother loves you too, son, more than anything in the world. She worries about you, day and night.”That sentiment stirred something profoundly pleasant inside the boy. He grinned at the internal warmth it created.

I wished upon the moon one night, bewitched by how it shone so white. While staring up with some excite my eyes beheld a wondrous sight! The moon so lustrous and white transformed into an...

A monster’s worst fear is of being found.

Time machines, magic portals, transporters, worm holes, flying carpets, relocation charms—such things do exist. They’re called books.

It’s impossible to be involved in all situations, but there’s no excuse not to be involved in something, somewhere, somehow, with someone. Make an ounce of difference.

It has never been my goal to impress anyone but myself. That has proven challenging enough.

Laughter and love are their own forms of exercise meant to keep a body healthy.

When you devalue ethics and morals by proclaiming that our attitude toward them should be casual or lenient, you can’t be surprised by a rising generation who then behaves disrespectfully; treating life, people, and choices...