Don't depend on other people as the source of your happiness or for approval.

Everything we do is to be offered to the Lord; and if done so with a pure heart of love, it becomes holy.

What's real freedom? Real freedom is being able to not have my way and still be just as happy as if I did.

If we didn't struggle through some things, we would never develop the strength and stamina we need to survive in this world.

Let's face it: None of us are ever going to get to the place in life where we have no more disappointments. We can't expect to be sheltered from every little thing. Disappointment is a fact of life--one that must be dealt with.

Sometime we get so addicted to murmuring about the past and blaming the past for everything that we miss our whole future. You're not going to enjoy your future, and you're not going to enjoy your right now, if all you can do is be guilty and ashamed and afraid of your past.

We are not a failure just because we fail at something. Nobody is a failure unless they quit trying!