This longing to express and celebrate life is innate and quite beautiful.
When you get some free time, write. When you get some lazy time, plan. When you get down time, world build. When your time comes, shine!
If you work around at-risk teen students, actually tell them you love them and have faith in their success. No one tells them that. No one.
If you understand 'it' will come, then you'll understand 'it' will pass. No matter what happens, you can make it. Trust me, you can.
When teachers doubt your potential, show them how wrong they truly are.
Our lives are filled with meeting wonderful people. Make sure those that have become a part of your life hear your words of appreciation.
If you get to a point where something happens today to stress you out, take a breath & center your thoughts on peace. Ignored thoughts die.
I started understanding that my strength is my gentleness. A leader isn't a dictator, a leader is a servant.
My choices are rejections, since there is no other way, but what I reject is more numerous, denser, more demanding than before. A little poem, a sigh, at the cost of indescribable losses.
My father was very strict with me, and I kept seeing a disparity between their freedom and my lack of it, or how I had all the responsibilities and they had none. And the Catholic Church, all of the rules, and why did I have to wear a dress when they could wear pants? I would say to my dad: 'Will Jesus love me less if I wear pants? Am I going to hell?'
I received compassion from the people I deserved it least from when I least deserved it, and that helped change me. When you take fear and isolation and put grievance on top, it's all too easy for people to hate and blame somebody else for their problems.