Education, possessions, or people cannot replace passion, but they are given meaning by your passion in life.

I outwitted those that deliberately suppressed me not by retaliating, but by minding my own business, continuing the self-discovery journey and reinventing myself.

I wonder what will happen when you actually enjoy the pains that life gives us sometimes. You'll be above them.

Personally, I think it is better for me to love myself and enjoy being me, than to please someone else by pretending to be someone I'm not.

Judging a person's maturity by the number of years they've lived is misleading. This is because people mature at different rates.

It is not the time that a person has lived that determines maturity, but what he does during that time.

A single word spoken at an appropriate time can make someone feel loved, comforted or happier.

By worrying about what will happen next year or the year after, you are using up today's time to do so.

A peaceful mind is a powerful mind...Set your mind at ease and take charge of yourself.

Action gives a decision power and finality.

Take one more step because it might be the last one needed.

The most beautiful thing that you can show people is how to reveal their own beauty to themselves.

If your weakness is love then you are extremely strong.

I don't think avoiding conflict is not caring. ~Shin

It's always easier to spot others' hypocrisies while missing our own.

People have been killing because of racial differences since the time of Adam and Eve, but in this country racism has been primarily aimed at African Americans.

Online you're encouraged to perform one personality for everyone.

I find it incredibly tedious, hate that it murders itself with its own conservative pomposity.

There's nothing like throwing up out a bus door, going sixty-five miles an hour.

I've just always written, and always considered myself a writer. I wrote my first story when I was five. There was nothing else I wanted to do or be.

I do not want to be civilized. I want to be liberated.