“Just because something doesn't matter doesn't mean it's not worth doing.”
― Solitaire
― Solitaire
“There is a difference between power and powerful. When you have power, you can hurt someone with it. But powerful is when you help someone in trouble, even if you don't benefit.”
― The Girl and the Goddess: Stories and Poems of Divine Wisdom
― The Girl and the Goddess: Stories and Poems of Divine Wisdom
“Do you think that, if we were happy for our entire lives, we would die feeling like we'd missed out on something?”
― Solitaire
― Solitaire
“Even if you cannot change all the people around you, you can change the people you choose to be around. Life is too short to waste your time on people who don’t respect, appreciate, and value you. Spend your life with people who make you smile, laugh, and feel loved.”
― The Light in the Heart
― The Light in the Heart
“The prince clears his throat and then says, ‘Fair princess, I will do whatever I can to break the curse that turns you into . . . that thing.’
‘That thing, as you call it,’ the princess says, ‘is the magical part of me. I love being the dragon and the dragon loves me.’
The princess raises an eyebrow. ‘I will love me this way. And I never said I was in want of being someone’s wife.’
‘But if not a wife, you will die an old maid,’ he presses on.
‘I am half dragon, who told you I will ever die at all?”
― Fierce Fairytales: Poems and Stories to Stir Your Soul
‘That thing, as you call it,’ the princess says, ‘is the magical part of me. I love being the dragon and the dragon loves me.’
The princess raises an eyebrow. ‘I will love me this way. And I never said I was in want of being someone’s wife.’
‘But if not a wife, you will die an old maid,’ he presses on.
‘I am half dragon, who told you I will ever die at all?”
― Fierce Fairytales: Poems and Stories to Stir Your Soul
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