As a communications major, I am completely in love with words. I am amazed by how the ways in which one can pair them up or phrase them can make you feel so many different emotions. I am constantly on the look for the next best thing and by pure accident one day I stumbled across a work by J Raymond. It's hard not to be empowered by his work or breathless when you find one that speaks to you more so than anything has in a long time. So, in hopes that you'll be just as moved by his work as I was, I have listed 12 of my favorites below.

12. "Whether you could handle her or not, you sure as hell would feel her."

11. "They'll speak as if they know your journey better than you."

10. "And sometimes standing back up is all that's needed to stand out."

9. "...we are too much of too many things, and aware enough to know what we're missing."

8. "There's something about songs on window panes that makes it nearly impossible to open your eyes."

7. "Go meet death, look them in the eyes, and let them know you're afraid, but you're just as unstoppable."

6. "Look at us all..... in love one minute, then burning with vengeance the next."

5. "It's love, my dear, that should fear me."

4. "You're not here to make sense of the scars, but to accept that they're meant to play a part in exactly who you are."

3. "I wish I could tell you that she was the calm in the storm, and not the storm itself."

2. "And, honestly, I'm not interested in people who haven't lived and died a few times."

1. "She is not the one."