It is a hard thing to let go of mistakes we’ve made and sins. God wants us to do that because He knows the guilt and the condemnation will keep us from becoming who He has created us to be.

Someone told me something that stuck with me: ‚You have to envision your life, and then go backwards.‘ I’ve been living by that motto for a while, so I see where I need to be. Now I’m just backtracking and trying to get back up there.

You can have the platinum album. But, you know, when you still feel like you haven’t quite found your place in the world, it kind of gives a crazy offset.

I can handle pain.

There’s a deceptive sin that can keep us from walking in love: pride. It’s deceptive because when you have pride, you’re usually too proud to admit it. I know this because I used to have teachings on pride and they didn’t sell well.

I think people should feel encouraged to be themselves.

There’s two sorts of fear: one you embrace and one you should listen to and turn the other way.

On the court, I want to try and get to the free-throw line a little more. And as a point guard, you can always get better at your decision-making and limiting your mistakes.

Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.

It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.

Man’s task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.

I’m just going to say it: I’m pro-guilt. Guilt is good. Guilt helps us stay on track because it’s about our behavior. It occurs when we compare something we’ve done – or failed to do – with our personal values.

Everyone goes through adversity in life, but what matters is how you learn from it.

Fear clogs; faith liberates.

I’ve always written. There’s a journal which I kept from about 9 years old. The man who gave it to me lived across the street from the store and kept it when my grandmother’s papers were destroyed. I’d written some essays. I loved poetry, still do. But I really, really loved it then.

We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones. Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man’s features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.

Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.

I am happy and I’m single.

I more fear what is within me than what comes from without.

I was not a good student. I did not spend much time at college; I was too busy enjoying myself.

Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?

I think the tiniest little thing can change the course of your day, which can change the course of your year, which can change who you are.

What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.

I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.

It creeps me out sometimes to think of the person I was. I was a terrible person. I was mean to people.

I need to keep working on myself for a while.

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Whatever is making you so angry, it’s time for you to give it to God and get over it.

I don’t want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.

I believe time wounds all heels.

If you are against yourself, you will never reach your highest potential. And when you criticize yourself, you’re criticizing God.

That is the real spiritual awakening, when something emerges from within you that is deeper than who you thought you were. So, the person is still there, but one could almost say that something more powerful shines through the person.

When we believe the best of people, we let go of each thing they do that is hurtful to us. And we choose to think things like, ‚I don’t believe they meant to hurt me.‘ ‚Maybe they’re having a bad day or don’t feel well.‘ ‚They probably don’t even realize how they sound.‘

The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to failure.

I think the worst part about a breakup sometimes, if one could choose a worst part, would possibly be if you get out of a relationship, and you don’t recognize yourself because you changed a lot about you.

The reward of suffering is experience.

He incurs a fearful amount of guilt who in the least promotes the aim of the Evil One by trampling upon a tender conscience in a child.

Everyone is different. Everyone has different teams they’ve played on, coaches they’ve played for.

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.

In the beginning, I was very insecure. I hated how I looked in pictures.

It’s better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you’ll drift in that direction.

Your most important work is always ahead of you, never behind you.

I wish they would only take me as I am.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.

Listening to and understanding our inner sufferings will resolve most of the problems we encounter.

As a Christian, you forgive, and you feed the hungry and clothe the naked, and you visit the sick and comfort the lonely. If I’m a true follower of my lord and saviour Jesus Christ, I got to do the things you’re supposed to be doing.

Never get married in college; it’s hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you’ve already made one mistake.

The self is hateful.

It’s better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone – so far.

I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside.

Hair is about when you’re younger. I am my hair.

Find out who you are. And do it on purpose.

Never complain and never explain.

Brad was a huge surprise to me. I think we were both the last two people who were looking for a relationship. I certainly wasn’t. I was quite content to be a single mom with Mad.

Personally I’m always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.

You can’t go backward in life.

I don’t know if I particularly want to be remembered for anything. I personally do not think I’m a great gift to the world. I’ve been very fortunate.

‚Perfection‘ to me is, I walk away from a situation and say, ‚I did everything I could do right there. There was nothing more that I could do.‘ I was a hundred percent, like the meter was at the top. There was nothing else I could have done. You know? Like, I worked as hard as I possibly could have. That’s perfection.