When your world is in pieces, you can choose to see it as crumbling or building. Your attitude, resilience and determination mark the difference.

When you love, love with with all your heart; don't have any expectations. You love because that's the only way you know how. It justifies your life.

When people are mean to you, win them over with kindness. If it doesn't work, you still win.

The presence of many does not and cannot replace the absence of one. That is love.

The ones who keep giving you reasons why you won't succeed, are probably the ones who wish that you won't. Listen to your heart. Follow your dream. It is not a question whether your dream is impossible. It is a question of how badly you want it.

Being hurt is a pesky part of being human. You are bound to meet people who will hurt you again and again. Instead of asking them why again and again, ask yourself why you let them again and again. As Mahatma Gandhi once said, "Nobody can hurt you without your permission."

So remember what others think of you depends a lot on what you believe about yourself, what you think you are, what you think about, what you say and what you have proven you can do.