#life-lessons

",the rest of the girls pretended not to notice. That's just what best friends do."

"Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for."

"I do not regret one moment of my life."

"You do not give your precious body to the billy clubs of Birmingham sheriffs, nor to the insidious activity of the streets."

"It is our wounds that create in us a desire to reach for miracles. The fulfillment of such miracles depends on whether we let our wounds pull us down or lift us up towards our dreams."

"Love changes things; hope allows us to endure until the change arrives."

"To get where you want to be, you must first know where you are."

"Yes, I understand why things had to happen this way. I understand his reason for causing me pain. But mere understanding does not chase away the hurt. It does not call upon the sun when dark clouds have loomed over me. Let the rain come then if it must come! And let it wash away the dust that hurt my eyes!"

"Your current circumstances are part of your redemption story He is writing."

"Mind is a flexible mirror, adjust it, to see a better world."

"Take what comes and live life without complaint. What will be, will be. Life is a woman's gift; death is God's."

"An apple a day keeps the doctor away.' But eating too many, is quite enough-plenty. And you'll have to go see the good doc anyway."

"I'm not a body with a soul, I'm a soul that has a visible part called the body."

"Then I discovered that being related is no guarantee of love!"

"Where I will find peace other than in oblivion?"

"There's no need to wait for the bad things and bullshit to be over. Change now. Love now. Live now. Don't wait for people to give you permission to live, because they won't."

"You don't have to disrespect and insult others simply to hold your own ground. If you do, that shows how shaky your own position is."

"The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in."

"Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not towisdom, but to scar tissue and callus."

"Every day you should up with the excitement in knowing that God’s plans for you are far greater than your dreams for yourself. The best is yet to come!"