Absence is the enemy of love and the friend of friendship.
Believe the best about people. Pray for their short comings. You are not the standard. We all need grace.
Why live for the approval of men when you can have the approval of their Creator? What can they give you that God can't?
Character isn't who you are when life goes your way. Character is who you really are when the bottom falls out.
Money cannot purchase joy. It buys temporary distractions.
If you plan to excel in big things, you have to develop the habit in the small ones.
Prayer isn't where we change God, but He changes us. Instead of praying for OUR desires, let's pray He burden us with HIS.
You can keep your mind open and use your imagination and be creative even when you're older. For kids, I definitely think keeping your mind open and using your imagination and being able to play pretend and that it's okay.
You cannot pluck love out of your heart as you would pull a tooth.
We do have to remain true to the idea of honesty within what you want to do.
Grief is a curious thing, when it happens unexpectedly. It is a Band-Aid being ripped away, taking the top layer off a family. And the underbelly of a household is never pretty, ours no exception. There were times I stayed in my room for days on end with headphones on, if only so that I would not have to listen to my mother cry. There were the weeks that my father worked round-the-clock shifts, so that he wouldn't have to come home to a house that felt too big for us.