O Allah You know me better than I know myself and I know myself better than these people who praise me. Make me better than what they think of me and forgive those sins of mine of which they have no knowledge and do not hold me responsible for what they say.

Sweep my dreams not beneath my feet. Be somewhere that my steps wont meet. Breaking the broom isnt a must. Dont mistake unmoved dreams for dust

All love stories have much in common. I wen through the same thing at one point in my life. But thats not what I remember. What I remember is that love returned in the form of another man new hopes and new dreams.

Your personal truth is your gift to the world.

Let this time in your life cut you open and drain all of the things that are holding you back. Im going to help you forgive the things that you wont let yourself forget.

Pray each morning and each night.Talk to God and be polite.Tell Him what youre grateful for.Leave your troubles at His door.Share your wishes needs and hopes.Ask God what to do to cope.Tell Him all you learned today.Say the things you need to say.Ask forgiveness for your sinsThat you might live with God again.Speak with earnest heart and soulAnd He will listen. This I know.For prayer is hope put to the test.And hope is faith in what is best.Faith is power to do great things.Thus prayer is faiths enabling wings.

I had a dream about you. The Thursdays were back and with them they brought hope. They were selling and everybody was buying. I tried telling the people they shouldnt buy because if they just wait 24 hours the product would be free. What the Thursdays sold was both priceless and worthless depending on when you acquired it.

Many years later when I began training as a plastic surgeon I understood something that I had not that day in the kitchen arguing for Thalia to leave Tinos for the boarding school. I learned that the world didnt see the inside of you that it didnt care a whit about the hopes and dreams and sorrows that lay masked by skin and bone. It was as simple as absurd and as cruel as that. My patients knew this. They saw that much of what they were would be or could be hinged on the symmetry of their bone structure the space between their eyes their chin length the tip projection of their nose whether they had an ideal nasofrontal angle or not.Beauty is an enormous unmerited gift given randomly stupidly.

I know that your soul is on life support and that you feel lost and like youre completely spinning out of control but youre finding yourself here tonight even in this darkness.

Hopelessness is advance failure in a disguised envelope. People are crippled to have bed-ridden dreams just because they dont believe they can take progressive steps with those dreams.