When you stand and share your story in an empowering way, your story will heal you and your story will heal somebody else.

I Choose… to live by choice, not by chance to be motivated, not manipulated to be useful, not used to make changes, not excuses to excel, not compete I choose self-esteem, not self pity I choose to listen to my inner voice, not to the random opinion of others.

Everything is just as it needs to be. And if we would forgive, our minds and hearts would open and we could see another possibility.

You can’t start the next chapter in your life if you keep re-reading the last one.

Dear God, Where would you have me go? What would you have me say? And to whom?

As we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.

Spiritual growth is giving up the stories of your past so the universe can write a new one.

People hear you on the level you speak to them. Speak from your heart and they will hear from their heart.

Don’t be pushed by your problems; be led by your dreams.

Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.

Trade your expectation for appreciation and the world changes instantly.

Identify your problems but give your power and energy to solutions.

A real decision is measured by the fact that you’ve taken a new action. If there is no action, you haven’t truly decided.

Success is buried on the other side of frustration.

Everybody’s got a past. The past does not equal the future unless you live there.

Life is a gift and it offers us privilege, opportunity and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

When you are grateful, fear disappears and abundance appears.

Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself.

The secret to finding your passion is to bring it to everything you do.

It’s not about what I can get, it’s about what I can give.

“Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.” 


If we believe tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.

When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew. ~William Shakespeare

Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. ~Robert Heinlein

If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever. ~Alfred Lord Tennyson

I love you not only for who you are, but for what you are when I am with you. I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but what you are making of me. ~Roy Croft

“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.” ~Charles M. Schulz

“Let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.” ~Mother Teresa

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails. ~1 Corinthians 13:4–8a

“Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all.” ~Emily Dickinson

“Only in the darkness can you see the stars.” ~Martin Luther King Jr.

“It is often in the darkest skies that we see the brightest stars.” ~Richard Evans

“When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.”~Rumi

“Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.” ~Thich Nhat Hanh

“Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.” ~Marianne Williamson

Happiness and joy often sneaks in through a door you didn’t know you left open.

Believe… All things are possible if you believe. 9:23

“Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.” ~Mother Teresa

“You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.” ~Mahatma Gandhi

“All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The reason birds can fly and we can’t is simply because they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.”

“Preach the Gospel at all times, and when necessary, use words.” ~St. Francis of Assisi

“And still, after all this time, the Sun has never said to the Earth,
”You owe me.”
Look what happens with love like that.
It lights up the sky.” 
~Rumi

“Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls.” ~Joseph Campbell

“Work without love is slavery.” ~Mother Teresa

“I believe in intuitions and inspirations…I sometimes FEEL that I am right. I do not KNOW that I am.” 
~Albert Einstein

“Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.” ~Mahatma Gandhi

“Faith is belief in what you cannot see or prove or touch. Faith is walking face-first and full-speed into the dark.” ~Elizabeth Gilbert

“I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit. ” Kahlil Gibran

“Faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see”.  ~ Hebrews 11:1