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It__ up to you to make your dreams real.

When going for your goals, staying motivated, enthusiastic, and flexible are daily deeds of daring.

There are 1,440 minutes in every day. How are you using yours?

Cereal is Wheat

I believe that there is something in all of us that is seeking expression, that wants to be heard, that wants to be accepted and respected and loved. We each express ourselves in different ways - through manipulation or domination, through receiving and giving pain, through crying, through loving, through giving hope and inspiration to others. We are all seeking the same thing - expression of who we are and what we want from this life.

Soon you catch your first glimpse of a vineyard basking in the sun, its broad leaves silently turning sunlight into sugar, ripening vitis vinifera, the European grapes that make the world__ finest wines. For a moment you might imagine you__e been mysteriously wafted to the French countryside, but no, this is the East End of Long Island, the most exciting new wine region in North America. You__e reached your destination, but your journey of discovery has barely begun

Prose fills a space, like a liquid poured in from the top, but poetry occupies it, arrays itself in formation, sets up camp and refuses to budge.

To those who are struggling. To talk about a struggle, you're likely to forget about it. To be shown a struggle, you're likely not to forget it. But, to live through a struggle, you'll understand it.

The melancholy comes over me, the dismal misery of not knowing where I am, or perhaps losing any sense of who I am, as if the mist is bringing about an evaporation of identity, all the certainties of the self leaching away into the cloud.

If you don't know your history, you don't know what you are talking about!

I would advise the curious reader to keep in mind the old adage __ruth is stranger than fiction._ Expect the most outlandish, fantastic and unbelievable elements of this story to be true, and the more low-key elements to be fudged.

We have a set of rules for our faith, our sexuality, our marriages, our dating relationships, for choosing a church__othing is off-limits. We tell ourselves to always do this, and never do that, and everything will turn out perfectly. Worse than that, we back up our rules with Bible verses and tell everyone else to follow them too.

It's like rock n' roll for your eyes.

I've allowed some of these points to stand, because this is a book of memory, and memory has its own story to tell. But I have done my best to make it tell a truthful story.

Neglected but Undefeated I stand today living the life I was told I would never live all because my faith grew.

In the midst of battle, you need something versatile to keep your focus

A decision is only as strong as the belief standing behind it

Inspiring leadership communication is not about great oratory or great charisma; rather it is about getting others to believe in themselves and believe in your cause, and then achieve more than they thought was possible.