Gratitude was never meant to be an excuse for giving up on the obstacles God has put before you. Some of the most magical things he can bring us require faith and a lot of planning.

Why wait for your happiness to come from your future blessings, when this moment already has all you need to live happily?

An evil mind will always live with the ghosts of its decisions and actions.

[She] sees. She knows. She understands. About evil, or whatever you care to name it. It comes. It's relentless. It doesn't care if you forgot it. It searches, and it finds you, and it arrives on your doorstep one day, and it lights up a screen, it calls you by your real name, it smiles at you, it says hello, it eyes your son and promises to take him home.

The fate of your dream lies in your actions.

The true fate of tomorrow lies on what you make of today.