Wise people have an inward sense of what is beautiful, and the highest wisdom is to trust this intuition and be guided by it.

When people show you who they are ... believe them!

Certain things, if not seen as lovely or detestable, are not being correctly seen at all.

What we have to be is what we are.

Never question another man's motive. His wisdom, yes, but not his motives.

When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the knocker on a door.

Wisdom often exists under a shabby coat.

Just because people love your gift doesn't mean they love you. Most of them will never really know you. Most of them don't care about you. They just want your gift. And it's okay to share your gift. It's a good thing to serve your gift to people or in places that may benefit from it.

for God loves to anoint misfits to fulfill His divine purpose and destiny!

Our instincts may have even guided us to hide parts of ourselves in order to keep them alive when we were younger.

Are you prepared to brave the negative reactions, comments, criticisms, and complaints that may arise from owning your authentic self? Can you handle it? Some people can't. They live without expressing the authenticity of what abides deep within them because the approval of others is more important to them than self-approval.

How very little a person knew about someone simply from looking at her. Yet how much people decided about others at a single glance. Herself included.