Lee Rowlands

“Suffering is not bad. If you understand it rightly, suffering is a cleansing. If you understand it rightly, sadness has a depth to it which no happiness can ever have. A person who is simply happy is always superficial. A person who has not known sorrow and has not known sadness, has not known the depths. He has not touched the bottom of his being; he has remained just on the periphery. One has to move within these two banks. Within these two banks flows the river.”

“Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask yourself if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.”

“The best advice I’ve ever received: ‘no one else knows what they are doing either.’”

“She was beautiful, but not like those girls in the magazines. She was beautiful, for the way she thought. She was beautiful, for the sparkle in her eyes when she talked about something she loved. She was beautiful, for her ability to make other people smile, even if she was sad. No, she wasn’t beautiful for something as temporary as her looks. She was beautiful, deep down to her soul.”

“Anger The anger is like a demon trying to escape into your spirit, it claws at your insides a darkness that relishes the pain it will cause. If you keep it in the pit of your stomach if you hold it inside your ribcage too long it will take your tongue prisoner when you least suspect it and terrorize everyone you love. This fiend, this cruel thing it can be defeated, it does not own you it deserves no space inside your spirit. Instead, channel it, find a way to let it out cry, dance, sing, build, create, do everything you can to give it a way out.”