If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, you do have a pretty big problem.

To settle an argument, think of what is right, not who is right.

It takes a strong heart to love, but it takes a stronger heart to continue to love after it’s been hurt.

Decide this minute to never again beg anyone for the love, respect and attention that you should be showing yourself.

We have to accept the fact that some people are going to stay in our hearts, even if they don’t stay in our lives.

It’s hard to trust someone the second time around, after they have given you one big reason to doubt their intentions.

Sometimes hurt is needed to make us grow, failure is needed to make us know, and loss is needed to make us gain. Because life’s greatest lessons are usually taught through a little bit of pain.

When you say things in anger, they leave a scar. You can put a knife into a man and then draw it out. But it won’t matter how many times you say “I’m sorry,” the wound is still there. A verbal wound is no different, so taste your words before you spit them out.

Life is not about trying to be a better person. Life is about finding out that the better person has been inside you all along.

Never compare yourself or others to other people. Everyone has their own struggles, own fights, and a different path that they chose to get to where they are. Everyone is who they are for a reason.

Do not change who you are for anyone. If God, in all his infinite wisdom, made you exactly the way you are. He did it for a reason.

Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.

Never fail to let someone know that you love them. Be open about your feelings. Because the cycle of life may take them away from you one day.

You can’t be happy if you’re still holding onto people that have already moved on.

It’s not hard to find someone who tells you they love you, it’s hard to find someone who actually means it.

Live to create love, art, music, peace, poetry, etc. Bring to the world what no one else can – a piece of YOU – a taste of your passion.

Don’t talk, just act. Don’t say, just show. Don’t promise, just prove.