Everybody's got a 'thing.' Some 'things' are nice and quiet. Some 'things' have fangs and claws. Some 'things' stink and have slobber everywhere.

We know how to be doctors, nurses, lawyers. We know how to be tweeters. We know how to be everything. But how do you just be people? How do you be present with one another? How do you be honest with one another? How do you be compassionate towards one another, forgiving towards one another? We know what to do. We don't know what to be, how to be.

When you're the strong one, people don't give you permission to hurt.

We think we have to do something to be grateful or something has to be done in order for us to be grateful, when gratitude is a state of being.

No storm can last forever. It will never rain 365 days consecutively. Keep in mind that trouble comes to pass, not to stay. Don't worry! No storm, not even the one in your life, can last forever.

The best students get the hardest lessons.

A man can't be in the space where there is feminine rage and bitterness. He doesn't know how to navigate it.