For someone grieving, moving forward is the challenge. Because after extreme loss, you want to go back.

I somehow make it through the first month. I dress and brush my teeth when they tell me to. And I experience the hollow feeling of complete loss, which is emptiness.

I force myself to think of anything but the one thing that I'm actually always thinking about. And that is so exhausting that I sleep more than I ever have.

This is why the deepest form of pain comes out as silence.

Only in cartoons and fairy tales and greeting cards do endings have glitter

I cut all my words out. My heart was too full of them.

She said they needed to put down a real root system to achieve their potential

At least it's working out because Cheddar is sort of obsessed with me, or at least very interested, which in the world of felines counts as obsessive behavior.

It would look pretty messed up to be a social worker and have dried kid blood as a permanent stain in your vehicle.

[T]he deepest form of pain comes out as silence.

Every person has lots of ingredients to make them what is always a one-in-a-kind creation. We are all imperfect genetic stews.

Resilient communities relied on informal networks of deep trust to contend with and heal disruption.

Praise can be your most valuable asset as long as you don't aim it at yourself.

Shine as light in the darkness of every human sphere of life

A cat can make you feel well rested when you're tired or turn a rage into a calm just by sitting on your lap. His very nearness is a healing song.

Hopefully one day we will pledge allegiance to the Earth and ALL the people on it.

For anyone worn down, The Impossible Will Take a Little While is a bracing double cappuccino.

This is taking [photos] from everybody - the entire collective memory of what the Earth looks like - and linking all of that together.

I really want to fall in love.

Our life interferes, our mind, our thoughts. Meditating is not just a practice of asserting will and learning to control the mind, it is also developing control of one's life and gaining wisdom.

I came to acting quite late. I tried not to be an actor.