To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!

You need to associate with people who inspire you, people that challenge you to raise higher, people that make you better. Don’t waste your valuable time with people that are not adding to your growth. Your destiny is too important.

The great challenge of adulthood is holding on to your idealism after you lose your innocence.

Compassion asks us to go where it hurts, to enter into the places of pain, to share in brokenness, fear, confusion, and anguish. Compassion challenges us to cry out with those in misery, to mourn with those who are lonely, to weep with those in tears. Compassion requires us to be weak with the weak, vulnerable with the vulnerable, and powerless with the powerless. Compassion means full immersion in the condition of being human.

The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else.

Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time… It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other.