If selfishness is the key to being miserable, then selflessness must be the key to being happy!

The risk for me would be in not taking one – that’s the only thing that’s really risky for me.

Boys do cry, but I don’t think I shed a tear for a good chunk of my teenage years.

If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. If certain things are described to you as being real they’re real for you whether they’re real or not.

What’s real freedom? Real freedom is being able to not have my way and still be just as happy as if I did.

I was raised in a family where vulnerability was barely tolerated: no training wheels on our bicycles, no goggles in the pool, just get it done. And so I grew up not only with discomfort about my own vulnerability, I didn’t care for it in other people either.

While we are postponing, life speeds by.

How happy had it been for me had I been slain in the battle. It had been far more noble to have died the victim of the enemy than fall a sacrifice to the rage of my friends.

Forget the past.

Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.

Marriage is the most wonderful thing ever.

You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.

Forgiveness is not a feeling – it’s a decision we make because we want to do what’s right before God. It’s a quality decision that won’t be easy and it may take time to get through the process, depending on the severity of the offense.

Conscious of not being able to separate myself from my time, I have decided to become part of it.

Self-worth comes from one thing – thinking that you are worthy.

The future will be better tomorrow.

The man who knows it can’t be done counts the risk, not the reward.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade.

As your career grows, the list of things that makes you happy should not become smaller, it should become bigger.

You either make dust or eat dust.

Remember that life’s big changes rarely give advance warning.

I tell people, and it’s the truth, I could sit in my garage for a week and it won’t make me a car. And you can sit in church till your bottom is flat and that won’t make you a servant of Christ.

I hated to be treated as a child. I thought it was the worst situation.

Successful people make money. It’s not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.

Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life.

Some people take defeat and losses a certain way. You see how some fighters take losses.

I was in my late thirties when my eyes were opened to truth in God’s Word that showed me I wasn’t living the abundant life Jesus died for me to have. I had a very negative mindset and was miserable most of the time because of the abuse I had experienced throughout my childhood.

The great epochs of our life are the occasions when we gain the courage to rebaptize our evil qualities as our best qualities.

I was married a few times, and one of my husbands was jealous of me writing.

We know what we are, but know not what we may be.

It’s amazing if you just listen to people. They tell you all the time things that you can do for them, without even realizing what they’re doing. I’ve learned to take notice of those things and if it’s something that I feel God wants me to do, then I try to do that to add joy to their life.

I don’t think human beings learn anything without desperation. Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.

I think everyone should be with who they love.

I used to have a real problem with self-pity. Every time the devil would throw a pity party, I would attend.

It’s very hard to find your own words – and you don’t actually exist until you have your own words.

I kinda live where I find myself.

Your life will be a blessed and balanced experience if you first honor your identity and priority.

Showing off is the fool’s idea of glory.

If you can dream it, you can do it.

There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.

Our intention creates our reality.

Now I realize that from ’72 through to about ’76, I was the ultimate rock star. I couldn’t have been more rock star.

We are in a wrong state of mind if we are not in a thankful state of mind.

I want to challenge you today to get out of your comfort zone. You have so much incredible potential on the inside. God has put gifts and talents in you that you probably don’t know anything about.

Number of people have said to me, after hearing your thinking, their mind becomes much more happier.

If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.

We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

‚Trilogy‘ was more of a claustrophobic body of work. Before it was released, I hadn’t left my city for 21 years, and I had never been on a plane, not once. I spent my entire life on one setting; that’s probably why pieces of the album feel like one long track, because that’s what my life felt like. It felt like one long song.

Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Those of us who submitted or surrendered our ideas and dreams and identities to the ‚leaders‘ must take back our rights, our identities, our responsibilities.

I think, for years, people have been pushed down by religion, and I don’t say that disrespectfully, but they’ve been shown a God that you can’t measure up to.

Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is impossible to foresee this, it is impossible to be warned.

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern… No, Sir; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.

Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it… that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

I have a dogmatic certainty: God is in every person’s life. God is in everyone’s life. Even if the life of a person has been a disaster, even if it is destroyed by vices, drugs or anything else – God is in this person’s life. You can – you must – try to seek God in every human life.

The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there.

The experience of pain or loss can be a formidably motivating force.

Peace is liberty in tranquillity.