richelle

Since when is failure more appealing? Never give up.

It is a greater triumph for the fearful soul who tries and fails than for the fearless who succeed.

Sometimes the difference between success and failure is simply the degree to which you crave one over the other.

I have lost my spark, I'm told, and should seek to rekindle it. _Respecting the messenger, I wonder if this is true. _I feel as if my spark endures, but having opened up to the world so bright, perhaps it no longer shines by comparison. _So, without a word, I slip back into seclusion to nurture my beautiful inner glow.

Some live for their own joy and pleasure. Some live to ease the burdens of others. _Then there are those who seem to exist for pain's sake only, that in the end the wrathful fire sent to consume their oppressors will be justified."~ In loving memory of Miss Annabelle Fancher

Just because a person successfully steers a voyage through hell doesn't mean he ever wants to sail that route again.

A sincere and warmly-expressed apology can produce the same effects as morphine on a suffering soul.

There are far too many silent sufferers. _Not because they don't yearn to reach out, but because they've tried and found no one who cares.

They urge us to study our history that we might learn from past tragedies and errors. But sometimes I think it's actually a good thing that humanity so easily forgets. The haze that eventually claims old suffering often enables us to move on.

There is no other company in the world I've found more pleasurable than my own. For no one else has ever been as accepting of me or as thoroughly entertained by my quirkiness. It is a sweet thing to like yourself.

Are you what others say and think you are? _Or are you who you are regardless of what others say and think?

It is a pleasurable thing to earn the admiration of others, but it is a far better feeling to honestly admire thyself.

It's none of your concern what others say or think about you. Your happiness is your own responsibility.

Believing in yourself means more than simply believing in your own ultimate success; it means believing you will survive failures, disappointments, rejections, and criticism but still persist.

Some days I feel like my worth is being reevaluated every five minutes.

Have you honestly pondered your individual worth? Consider every lower life form in the world__he animals, plants, fouls and fishes. Consider the land forms and numerous earthly wonders. Consider the countless worlds beyond this planet as well as their stars and galaxies. And then consider yourself. Of all God__ creations, you were formed in His image, resembling the likeness of a God. That__ something to think about.

This is me today, but take heed; it is not the same me as yesterday, and it will not be the same me tomorrow.

How frustrating to think you can be lost to yourself. And yet how often it is that a stranger stares back at you from the mirror. Maybe in truth we never see ourselves as clearly as the thousands of eyes that daily take us in.