We live that we might have experience; that through it we might gain wisdom, compassion, faith, and inner strength.

You can believe what you've been told. You can imagine in vivid detail the things explained to you. You may even feel emotions assumed to accompany the related experience. But you absolutely cannot know something with any real degree of understanding until you've personally walked the road yourself.

I don't believe that the course of anyone's lifetime has ever been as unerring as that of the rising and setting sun, but I know many lives that have been just as inspiring.

Life demands much. Give more.

Live your day and live it well. It's yours whether you want it or not.

While 'Once upon a time' may be a great way to start a story, 'Here in the moment' is the best way to live one.

You live,You grow,You learn a lotAnd think you know it all.The sun,So big,So proudly hot,It too will one day fall.

Those things that inspire, enthuse, and compel you should consume your life.

If you feel like a nearly-drowned rat that’s been dragged through the mud, all twisted up inside your mother’s borrowed, prized quilt, having been tossed about by gale force winds that managed to entangle you in barbed wire one-thousand miles from your goal in the middle of a hot, barren nowhere void of any basic necessities―then congratulations! You’re no observer but an actual participant in the game of life! Stand up and keep living.