Brennan Nelms

“Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.”

“No matter how qualified or deserving we are, we will never reach a better life until we can imagine it for ourselves and allow ourselves to have it.”

The people that are there for you through thick and thin, laughs and crys, love and hate, rich or poor, those are your friends, your real friends, your true friends.

“No one really cares if you are miserable so you might as well be happy.”

“With men it is impossible, but to God all things are possible.

Happiness does not seem to be the absence of problems but it will lie in my ability to deal with them.

Learn how to be happy with what you have while you pursue all that you want.

Everytime we judge others we have a opportunity to learn more about ourselves than those we judge.

You can fool some of the people all of the time, and you can fool all of the people some of the time, but you can’t fool mom.

Should you shield the canyons from the wind storms, you would never see the beauty of their carvings.

We must come to understand that we grow and evolve as humans on a living planet when old men are willing to plant trees whose shade they know they will never never sit in.

Character isn’t inherited. One builds it daily by the way one thinks and acts, thought by thought, action by action. If one lets fear or hate or anger take possession of the mind, they become self-forged chains.

It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.