“I don’t want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.” 

“Stress, anxiety, and depression are caused when we are living to please others.”

“Sometimes life doesn’t give you what you want, not because you don’t deserve it, but because you deserve so much more.” 

Easy is to judge the mistakes of others. Difficult is to realize your own mistakes.

“If it’s important you’ll find a way. If it’s not, you’ll find an excuse.”

A mother is your first friend, your best friend, your forever friend.

“Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.”

You don’t have to defend or explain your decisions to anyone. It’s your life. Live it without apologies.

There are friends, there is family, and then there are friends that become family.

“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.”

“When you are looking at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know.”

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”

“If you’re in the luckiest one percent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 percent.”