Words may help you understand something, but experience allows you to know. Never ever trade your own experience for someone else's words about anything that is really important... like God, for instance, or Love, or what is true about another.

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You can live your life out of a circumstance or you can live your life out of a vision.

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Life is very interesting... in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths. — Drew Barrymore

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If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior.

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Ignore the glass ceiling and do your work. If you’re focusing on the glass ceiling, focusing on what you don’t have, focusing on the limitations, then you will be limited. — Ava DuVernay

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Happiness is a quality of the soul not a function of one's material circumstances. ― Aristotle

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Things are always different than what they might be. If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything. — Henry James

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I've always wanted to fight for people who didn't have arms. I've always wanted to speak up for people who don't have a voice. I've always wanted to protect people who couldn't protect themselves. It's my nature. It's my instinct. — Sophia Bush

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So much in life depends on our attitude. The way we choose to see things and respond to others makes all the difference.

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Brevity is the soul of wit

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