And God, the Master Builder. This is the meaning behind Joseph's words God meant it for good in order to bring about... The Hebrew word translated here as bring about is a construction term

God as Master Weaver, Master Builder. He redeemed the story of Joseph. Can't he redeem your story as well?

You cannot be anything you want to be. But you can be everything God wants you to be.

A woman who is convinced that she deserves to accept only the best challenges herself to give the best. Then she is living phenomenally.

While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation.

Graduation, the hush-hush magic time of frills and gifts and congratulations and diplomas, was finished for me before my name was called. The accomplishment was nothing. The meticulous maps, drawn in three colors of ink, learning and spelling decasyllabic words, memorizing the whole of The Rape of Lucrece - it was for nothing. Donleavy had exposed us. We were maids and farmers, handymen and washerwomen, and anything higher that we aspired to was farcical and presumptuous.

Stand up straight and realize who you are, that you tower over your circumstances. You are a child of God. Stand up straight.

She liberated me from a society that would have had me think of myself as the lower of the low. She liberated me to life. And from that time to this time, I have taken life by the lapels and I have said, I'm with you, kid.

What is a fear of living? It's being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself - for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don't know what you're here to do, then just do some good.

Seek the fashion which truly fits and befits you. You will always be in fashion if you are true to yourself, and only if you are true to yourself.

If you're going to live, leave a legacy. Make a mark on the world that can't be erased."-Maya Angelou

The only thing you own is your story. Make sure it's a good one.