Manifest plainness,
Embrace simplicity,
Reduce selfishness,
Have few desires.

The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering…

Travel is never a matter of money but of courage

Fairy tales are real. They just take a little longer to happen than a one and a half hour Disney movie.

You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. This is a power you can cultivate. If you want to control things in your life so bad, work on the mind. That’s the only thing you should be trying to control.

…I wrote it because I wanted to feel something. I needed to feel something. I wanted to get the words written because the writing proved I was alive.

Depression.

Sometimes it’s screaming and crying and smashing plates

Sometimes it’s numbness and quiet and “oh god why am I not dead”

And sometimes it’s getting up anyways and staying alive, even if you don’t want to

You just do it. You force yourself to get up. You force yourself to put one foot before the other, and God damn it, you refuse to let it get to you. You fight. You cry. You curse. Then you go about the business of living. That’s how I’ve done it. There’s no other way.

Until we have seen someone’s darkness, we don’t really know who they are. Until we have forgiven someone’s darkness, we don’t really know what love is.