I think it's up to the parents to determine whether what they're doing is consigning their child to difficulty. It's not as though they were crippling their children after they were born.

Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance.

It is nearly impossible to hate anyone whose story you know.

The opposite of depression is not happiness, but vitality, and it was vitality that seemed to seep out of me.

We cannot bear a pointless torment, but we can endure great pain if we believe that it's purposeful.

A sense of humor is the best indicator that you will recover; it is often the best indicator that people will love you. Sustain that and you have hope.

I can see the beauty of glass objects fully at the moment when they slip from my hand

I believe that words are strong, that they can overwhelm what we fear when fear seems more awful than life is good.

We don't seek the painful experiences that hew our identities, but we seek our identities in the wake of painful experiences.

Life is enriched by difficulty; love is made more acute when it requires exertion.

When you believe that you cannot stitch your own heart back together, go to work on the hearts of other people; there is no surer way to repair yourself than to repair them.

Divinity encompasses all life forms.

That's the thing about anxiety: It's a real time suck.

Let her remain where she is. A constellation away.

My mom was essentially a single mother raising three boys. If anyone could have had any reason to give up, it was her. But she didn't, and neither did we.

You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.

Words can only hurt you if you try to read them. Don't play their game!

Basically, man, I just love myself.

Did a man really walk on the moon? I saw plenty of documentaries on it, and I really wondered.

Human beings are part of nature. Anything they do is natural. It's impossible for anything in nature to do anything unnatural.

No one achieves great things by following the crowd. Have a spine. Strike your own path.