Our world needs more time to wonder and reflect but there is too much fast paced constant distraction. – Mister Rogers.

Listening; our propensity to complicate this effortless act is only matched by our ability to relentlessly obscure the obvious.

Through the "Strength" of one and his simple existence, there will be a transformation affecting many because of just one life.

Change comes by substituting good habits for less desirable ones. You mold your character and future by good thoughts and acts.

If you ever expect life to be fair, you are in for a shocking disappointment. Life is what it is. Fair is something we made up.

If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now. For wheat is wheat, even if people think it is a grass in the beginning.

-kalau aku susah, cukuplah kutangisi semalaman. semalam suntuk. esoknya aku tak mau lagi menangis. aku bangun dan tegak kembali-

My spirit is healthy, yes. But I tell you, my flesh is healthy too. I am enlightened and free, but I am also lustful and carnal.

Drifting away from one’s culture leaves one stranded in the middle of nowhere till the time his suffocation strangles him.

Do not let anyone else's expectations direct the course of your life. I have discovered happiness in being true to who I am.

I don´t want to be somebody´s crush, if somebody likes me, i want them to like the real me, not what they think I am.

These pages testify to the discovery of uhnlikely gifts when we stay in community--especially when we stay after things get hard.

write with honesty and don't worry about the feelings of others, because no matter what you say, they'll hate you anyway.

Don’t take it so hard, Joel,” Johnson cut in. “After all, prayer isnot the monopoly of one.” (Chapter 18)

Life's choices are wild and free, but sustaining and elevating, or destructive and debilitating. It's up to us to choose.