"If someone is not treating you with love and respect, it is a gift if they walk away from you. If that person doesn’t walk away, you will surely endure many years of suffering with him or her. Walking away may hurt for a while, but your heart will eventually heal. Then you can choose what you really want. You will find that you don’t need to trust others as much as you need to trust yourself to make the right choices."
"One of the rarest gifts someone can offer you in this world isn’t love or friendship or even honesty… it’s a chance. Because it’s easy for someone who knows you to believe in you, but when someone who doesn’t takes a chance on you by entrusting you with something that may or may not pay off for them, that’s a rare and special act of faith you’re not likely to ever see again.
If someone gives you a chance, recognize that you are being offered a unique combination of trust and generosity and don’t ever let them down. They’re taking a risk on you and you owe it both to them and yourself to give it your best shot, because an opportunity like that is rare… a person like that is rare… In fact, it just may be a once in a lifetime kind of thing."
