Do you know what happens to scar tissue? It’s the strongest part of the skin.

Michael R. Mantell.

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.

I’m sorry that there’s been no updates for a while. My aunt’s funeral was today. I’ll try and make an update in the next few days.

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow them.

Louise May Alcott.

Life is meaningless only if we allow it to be. Each of us has the power to give life meaning, to make our time and our bodies and our words into instruments of love and hope.

Tom Head.

Where did we ever get the crazy idea that in order to make children do better, first we have to make them feel worse? Think of the last time you felt humiliated or treated unfairly. Did you feel like cooperating or doing better?

Jane Nelson.

A thoroughly good relationship with ourselves results in being still, which doesn’t mean we don’t run and jump and dance about. It means there’s no compulsiveness. We don’t overwork, overeat, oversmoke, overseduce. In short, we begin to stop causing harm.

Pema Chodron.

The fact that you are willing to say, “I do not understand, and it is fine,” is the greatest understanding you could exhibit.

Wayne Dyer.