Sometimes it feels as if God set you on Earth with a bottle full of nasty-tasting pills called days and these instructions: Swallow one at a time. When entire prescription is finished, you may return...

I laugh for sheer medicinal purposes; because I feel I might die otherwise.

Frozen yogurt is tastier than ice cream, nobody is too old for cartoons, bald men are sexy, chocolate is the best medicine, BIG books are better, cats secretly rule the planet, and everything should be...

When I finally find that one willing agent, I’ll have found my prize in the Cracker Jack box.

When you open your mouth, listeners are offended. When you close your mouth, the expectant are offended. If a person seeks misdoing from you they will find it regardless of whether or not you deliver. 

Imagine in vibrant, wonderful detail your heart’s desire—a reality only you can envision, an adventure only you can direct.Then cradle your creation. Caress it. Mold it. Coddle it until it comes to life.And when your...

Friends are those crazy people who keep coming back, in spite of being exposed to the real you.

It’s been a harsh fight.You’ve been pummeled and knocked down. Your body aches, flesh torn and bruised. Your eyes can hardly see through a stream of blood. But you are cognizant and alive; therefore, you...

For things I am not thankful for―experiences I would never volunteer to relive―I recognize how they have changed me. My depth of compassion and humility, the sincerity of my empathy and understanding, and the duration...

To love is to accept a soul entirely, not wishing that the person was otherwise, nor hoping for change, nor clinging to some ideal past. To love is to cherish the individual standing before you...

Laughter is magic that dispenses clouds and creates sunshine in the soul.

Your body and spirit, subconscious and conscious—every portion of you recognizes home. That is why on the moment of arrival, your entire being relaxes into a contented puddle of joy.

I believe the main purpose of life is to accept with gratitude what you’ve been blessed with so that you may use those gifts to mold yourself into the best person you can possibly be....

Jesus Christ died to save us from our sins; we tend to concentrate on that merciful fact. But isn’t it also true He lived to show us a lifestyle free from sin? So, wouldn’t following...

When a child truly understands his grand potential, he looks to the stars not simply to make a wish but to chart a destination.

There are far too many silent sufferers. Not because they don’t yearn to reach out, but because they’ve tried and found no one who cares.

Prove that you love me through a lingering gaze and never losing that twinkle of adoration in your eyes.

For whatever reason, there are people we like and people we don’t like. It’s hard to say why, and often a difficult opinion to change. Luckily, there’s no steadfast rule stating that we must like...

The most difficult challenge an honest man will ever face is having to choose between duty and love.One creates a man of honorable character―a life worth dying for.The other creates a vulnerable soul that madly...

You can add up your blessings or add up your troubles. Either way, you’ll find you have an abundance.

The power of a smile is such that even drawing a happy face on a piece of paper makes your lips turn up.

Rainbows paint the sky ‘til the sun melts their colors.Swinging in the wind, whiskered cattails purr.The pigs gallop by and snort at the moon,While frogs kiss the lizards and princesses too.”

Those things that challenge the worst in us tend to strengthen the best in us.

It’s a fact I’ve always known, just like my ancestors before me. Don’t you see? That’s what makes us who we are. That’s what makes life valuable, Pallador, knowing that each and every day we...

Laughter isn’t a sign of insanity but a shield against it.

A little porch light from a distant farmhouse dimmed, feeling alone and unneeded until his smallest spark of illumination snuffed out entirely. The night fell as dark as it was quiet. Meanwhile, every secret eye...

Life is just repeated attempts at trying to do better.

I’m not really Red Riding Hood. My name is Annabelle, but I’m pretending to be her because……well……because this is my dream and that’s what I wish to dream about.”Oh glorious day! He’d learned her name!...

Christmas is like candy; it slowly melts in your mouth sweetening every taste bud, making you wish it could last forever.

By the way, my name’s Rose Hathaway. I’m seventeen years old, training to protect and kill vampires, in love with a completely unsuitable guy, and have a best friend whose weird magic could drive her...

A daily dose of daydreaming heals the heart, soothes the soul, and strengthens the imagination.

Wilted or in bloom,taking or lending daylight,the world transitions.

World peace, true love, and happily-ever-afters amount to wasted wishes, failed endeavors, and most precious dreams.

A good dose of fantasy is exercise for your sensibilities; it keeps your avatar strong.

Acknowledge that some moments are just plain awful―desperate and gloomy and painful and miserable and nothing at all but anguish. No truthful, cheerful thought in the world will fix it. So let me cry awhile....

Reality is a background so painted over by our own perceptions that every eye sees the world differently.

A thought can prompt. Words can stir. But it takes action to attain a dream.

No matter what you write, no matter how meticulous and painstaking the creation process, someone is going to laugh, scorn, and dissect your work with criticism while another quietly falls in love with it.

I see the good in the world because I choose to. I don’t imagine that it’s there; it’s there waiting to be noticed.

Truly, there is magic in fairytales.For it takes but a simply-uttered ‘Once upon a time…’ to allure and spellbind an audience.

The key to success―keep swimming. Even when they tap you on the shoulder to say the pool has been drained, just keep swimming.

Thousands of hopeful days came to naught before this one. This was a golden day. Never give up.

Every sunrise is an invitation for us to arise and brighten someone’s day.

No matter how many lies you use to disguise it or how many excuses you bury it beneath, the truth will never cease to be true.

Rare and precious moments, how I long to live with you eternally! If only your sweetness never ceased to touch my lips, and the flutters you evoke nevermore faded away. I dream of your arm...

The louder you bellyache, the longer your stomach will hurt.

What’s the point of changing who you are in order to impress a woman, when your intention is to return to who you were, a person she was never attracted to in the first place?

Corned beef and cabbage and leprechaun men.Colorful rainbows hide gold at their end.Shamrocks and clovers with three leaves plus one.Dress up in green—add a top hat for fun.Steal a quick kiss from the lasses in...

The Harvest Moon glows round and bold,In pumpkin shades outlined in gold,Illuminating eerie forms,Unnatural as a candied corn.Beware what dare crawls up your sleeve,For ’tis the night called Hallows Eve.

I’d really love to hear the end of that sentence, Amora.