Profile of Tonja

Sometimes good people make bad choices. It doesn't mean they're bad people. It means they're human.

I look back with a mix of emotions: sadness for the people who are gone, nostalgia for times that have passed, but immense gratitude for the wonderful opportunities that came my way.

It would be too easy to say that I feel invisible. Instead, I feel painfully visible, and entirely ignored.

Stay positive and happy. Work hard and don't give up hope. Be open to criticism and keep learning. Surround yourself with happy, warm and genuine people.

I want my life to effect the balance to the positive.

Having a positive mental attitude is asking how something can be done rather than saying it can't be done.

Positive feelings come from being honest about yourself and accepting your personality, and physical characteristics, warts and all; and, from belonging to a family that accepts you without question.

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.

Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.

Sometimes the best way to solve your own problems is to help someone else.

In the darkest times, hope is something you give yourself. That is the meaning of inner strength.

The devil is real and he isn't a little red man with horns and a tail. He can be beautiful because he's a fallen angel and he used to be God's favourite.

Do you know who you are? You're the only person on this planet who makes me feel that I'm not alone.

All I ever wanted was a single thing worth fighting for.

Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.

They are waiting to take us into
the severed garden
Do you know how pale and wanton thrillful
comes death on a strange hour
unannounced, unplanned for
like a scaring over-friendly guest you've
brought to bed
Death makes angels of us all
and gives us wings
where we had shoulders
smooth as raven's
claws

You wear a mask for so long, you forget who you were beneath it.

I'm a whisper in the night, eyes that glow in the darkness. I stand in shadow, and my mask is the monster you fear.

After all, to the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

Natürlich kommt es immer auf die Wahrheit an. Was wollt ihr denn für eine Welt? Eine, in der Rache herrscht oder Recht? Die Wahl ist einfach.

Love wasn't possible without a self, and nor was thinking.

Feelings. The truth is, for so long, I'd forgotten what those even were. I've been stuck in one place, in a cave you might say. A deep, dark cave. And then, I left some Eggos out in the woods, and you came into my life and for the first time in a long time, I started to feel things again. I started to feel happy. But lately, I guess I've been feeling distant from you. Like you're pulling away from me or something. I miss playing boardgames every night, making triple-decker Eggo extravaganzas at sunrise, watching westerns together before we doze off. But I know you're getting older. Growing. Changing. And I guess if I'm being really honest, that's what scares me. I don't want things to change. So I think maybe that's why I came in here, to try to maybe... stop that change. To turn back the clock. To make things go back to how they were. But I know that's naive. It's just not how life works. It's moving. Always moving, whether you like it or not. And, yeah, sometimes it's painful. Sometimes it's sad. And sometimes... it's surprising. Happy. So you know what? Keep on growing up, kid. Don't let me stop you. Make mistakes, learn from 'em and when life hurts you, because it will, remember the hurt. The hurt is good. It means you're out of that cave.

One day, you will be old enough to start reading fairytales again.

Sometimes you can do everything right and things will still go wrong. The key is to never stop doing right.

Brave doesn't mean you're not scared. It means you go on even though you're scared.

What's the point of having a voice if you're gonna be silent in those moments you shouldn't be?

And the moral of the story' -
Girl , soft from not paths .
Stay alone and just not on ,
Never trust a stranger .

Never go to bitt'ren end .
Do not give yourself in someone else's hands .
Your beauty attracts them ,
and a wolf is every man .

Remember one thing: In the night
is already so many Wolf wakes .
Wines them no tear ,
Wolves have sharp teeth .

Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.

Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.

Red is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion, because it's on both ends of the spectrum. On one end you have happiness, falling in love, infatuation with someone, passion, all that. On the other end, you've got obsession, jealousy, danger, fear, anger and frustration.

Harry, there is never a perfect answer in this messy, emotional world. Perfection is beyond the reach of humankind, beyond the reach of magic. In every shining moment of happiness is that drop of poison: the knowledge that pain will come again. Be honest to those you love, show your pain. To suffer is as human as to breathe.

Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure.

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.

We always see our worst selves. Our most vulnerable selves. We need someone else to get close enough to tell us we’re wrong. Someone we trust.

You go through life wondering what is it all about but at the end of the day it's all about family.

I believe that the greatest gift you can give your family and the world is a healthy you.

'It was a mistake,' you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you.

...and i knew nothing,
looking into the heart of light, the silence.

Small is the number of them that see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.

It was because of the way you treated me that I learned to be my own person, have my own opinion, stand my ground. It’s at least partially because I survived you that I’m the person I am today.

My self-wroth is not linked to your cruel words and actions.
My self-esteem is not affected by your deliberate attempts to destroy my character.
You have no power over me.
You will not silence me.

Bystanders who do nothing give bullies permission inadvertently to go on being bullies. Most are afraid they’ll lose friends or be bullied themselves if they help victims or report bullies, and some feel guilty for years afterward.

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

I recognise the council has made a decision, but given that it’s a stupid-ass decision, I’ve elected to ignore it.

To regret one's own experience is to arrest one's own development.

Sometimes the best way to learn something is by doing it wrong and looking at what you did.

No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.

It does not do to dwell on dreams, Harry, and forget to live.