I used to settle for less…but knew I deserved more…so much life to discover…what was I waiting for…to create a new beginning…I have to let go…of any pain and heartache…that my heart holds…inside I have the courage…I’m stronger I know…in this place that I am…I allow myself to go…in order to move on…I have to leave behind the doubt…because that was my then…and this is my now…

I’d rather be hated for who I am…than loved for someone I’m not…I’m definitely not perfect…but work with what I’ve got…I can be stubborn…and maybe a little too bold…when life gets rough…I don’t give up instead I take hold…I’m passionate about life…and love to dream…yep I’m exactly…who I want to be…my heart is open wide…with plenty of room to grow…you can take me as I am…or watch me as I go…

My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage.

I don’t really want to become normal, average, standard. I want merely to gain in strength, in the courage to live out my life more fully, enjoy more, experience more. I want to develop even more original and more unconventional traits

When hard becomes harder, a man becomes stronger

Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength