*we'll have a whale of a time

Courage doesn’t happen when you have all the answers. It happens when you are ready to face the questions you have been avoiding your whole life.

I crave space. It charges my batteries. It helps me breathe. Being around people can be so exhausting, because most of them love to take and barely know how to give - except for a rare few.

As I look back on my life, I realize that every time I thought I was being rejected from something good, I was actually being re-directed to something better.

Life is complex. Each one of us must make his own path through life. There are no self-help manuals, no formulas, and no easy answers. The right road for one is the wrong road for another…The journey of life is not brightly lit, and it has no road signs. It is a rocky path through the wilderness.

The day she let go of the things that were weighing her down was the day she began to shine the brightest.

Some things are more precious because they don’t last long.

I am made of more; more than tears, more than heartache, more than all of this.