Often we find our voice after sounding like a lot of other people.

Being hurt isn’t fair and often doesn’t make sense but, it happens. But, I believe that just because we’ve been hurt does not give us the right to hurt back or hurt others. I believe that when someone willfully hurts us it isn’t our fault. I believe that it isn’t right. I believe that it should never be ignored, accepted, or supported. I believe that it doesn’t matter who started it but, who finishes it and that HOW they finished it is the most important part. I believe that we should not react with passionate anger but, respond with confident gentility. And I believe that hurt is a passing thing, something that we must wrestle with and, when we have won, to cast it aside and walk away the stronger from the challenge it presented us.

Do not trust those who promise you mounds of gold because their investment is often no more than a bag of silver and your reward no more than a copper piece.

We cannot become what we want to be by remaining the same.

Stars cannot shine without darkness.