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Don't let anyone steal your joy. 
I get so caught up in letting people control my happiness by the way they treat me. Sometimes, letting go of the bad people in your life is a good thing. Someone stole my joy and kept it in their hand but God has allowed their grip to loosen so that I could take my happiness back. Joy is a wonderful thing and I am thankful my God fights for me to have that in my life. 

Men are not all bad. 
I'm not so sure I would broadcast this message to my brain because logic tells me to stay away from the male gender completely. I'm also not sure that I completely agree with this statement and I'd rather continue believing all guys are the same. I want so badly for this to be wrong but from here on out, I am making the guys in my life prove themselves to me. 

Being a man isn't about age it's about the way you conduct yourself, the way he treats those who he loves and the way he treats those who are less fortunate. 
He wasn't a man. He was a boy who is used to being handed everything in life. I have read this sentence to quite a few of my close guy friends and this semester I am focusing on encouraging the guys in my life to be real men of God, the farthest mindset of what I am used to being surrounded by. 

Butterflies are beautiful, until you look them too closely in the face.
I have felt many butterflies with the guy I was crushing on, but when I look at the roots of this crush, it's nothing. Friendship is so much more beautiful than a few silly butterflies in my stomach. It was nice to be treated so wonderfully for a change, it was nice to feel as if I was worth something to someone. But now is not the time to feel those feelings and they have all gone away. 

The guy you fall in love with and marry will not be the guy you expect. And he won't be perfect...except to you. That's just the way it is. 
I can't wait. I just can't wait. Someone was telling me yesterday that there is a guy out there for me who will make me feel as if I am the only girl in his world, he will make me feel like an angel and he will love me despite everything. If I am meant to get married, I know God has already written a wonderful love story for me that is far better than the one I created for myself this summer. 

My dad sends me the best advice ever and I love him so much. 

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