Often it's the deepest pain which empowers you to grow into your highest self.

Forgiveness doesn't excuse their actions. Forgiveness stops their actions from destroying your heart.

Happiness is a choice; not just a matter of genes or good luck.

Sometimes when I'm not feeling so happy, I do something to make someone else happy then I find I'm suddenly feeling happy again.

You gotta look for the good in the bad, the happy in your sad, the gain in your pain, and what makes you grateful not hateful.

What we seek in love is finding someone with whom we feel safe to reveal our true self.

The Problem is: many terrific women have made themselves overqualified for the job of wife, because many men are looking for a woman with 'receptionist-level wife skills', not 'CEO-level wife skills'. Meaning: If a woman doesn't hang on a man's every word, is too independent, challenges his leadership, wants to create her own hours, demands emotional raises, then there won't be as many openings for the kind of wife position she is seeking. One of the big problems with marriages in the nineties: no room for two husbands.