✦ We don't always get what we want, and that's okay. 

✦ Change is inevitable, be comfortable with it. 

✦ Explore outside your comfort zone, or at least the borders of it.

✦ Life is not easy nor fair, and it will never be.

✦ Pray, it is the strongest defense we've got.

✦ In every hardship there is a lesson to be learned.

✦ Be grateful always.

✦ Be gentle and kind to others and to yourself as well.

✦ When we lose something believe in the promise that God has a plan.

✦ Harships are temporary, when you're at the brink of breaking down, kneel and pray.

✦ There is always a chance to be better. 

✦ An inch of progress is still progress. 

✦ You are not measured by your success and achievements. 

✦ Happiness can be found in the most unlikely places, and it always begins with you. 

✦ Family is forever.