But I think sometimes a person has to be forced underwater to see if they're going to drown or swim..

To give up too easily leads to regret, yet trying and then failing can lead us to second chances if we do not accept it as a failure, but a chance to….

Life isn't perfect. It's not supposed to be. We all make mistakes. You bash your head against the wall and you get hurt, but you walk away and make t….

A secret society exists, and is living among all of us. They are neither people nor animals, but something in-between..

The answers we seek aren't always the answers we want, are they? But knowing the truth is what helps us sleep at night..

They say that not matter how old you become, when you are with your siblings, you revert back to childhood..

You have to get through the rain if you're ever going to see a rainbow..

There is how we were before, and how we are now, and the time between is spent choosing which doors to open, and which to close..

We live, we love. These are the choices we are given, to open doors or to close them. It is all we have, and it is enough.

Adversity in life does not rob your heart of beauty. It simply teaches it a new song to sing..

Sometimes I guess you need to lose everything before you realize what's really important..

Sometimes we make decisions because it seems to be the only path visible at the moment. It's only later that we see there was more than one path, but….

I know what it is to hope and pray so hard that you're sure God will answer your prayer just so you'll stop asking..

Strong winds buffet the sea oats and tall dune grasses, tossing sand and seabirds where it will, winding my sister's golden hair into sunlit spirals ….

when you lose your sails, row..

There are no completely good or bad people. Everybody makes mistakes, or bad choices. It's how we live with them that make us the people we are..

The highway of life was littered with the roadkill of those who didn't know when to change lanes..

A great man once wrote, "Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire." If only….

The word that came to me now was "defiant." Because a person had to be defiant to be able to stand amid the wreckage of her life and instead of shaki….

Every woman needs a daughter to tell her stories to..

Miles and years become suddenly invisible when you find yourself back where you started from, as if you've learned nothing and you are once again the….