If you can't see anything beautiful about yourself, get a better mirror.

I accept that today may be imperfect... I accept that I may be as well. What I don't accept is that imperfection should be the crutch I use to excuse myself from participating in joy.

I sit before flowers hoping they will train me in the art of opening up I stand on mountain tops believing that avalanches will teach me to let go I know nothing but I am here to learn.

The tiniest dream that you make happen is worth more than the biggest dream that you never attempt.

I will love myself despite the ease with which I lean toward the opposite.

Look at an avalanche, and see that we are at our most powerful when we let go. Look at a flower, and see that we are at our most beautiful when we open up.

If your heart is broken, make art with the pieces.

We come from the mentality, that rarely sees the horror in symmetry or the beauty in non-conformity

Our lives will only ever always continue to be a balancing act that has less to do with pain and more to do with beauty.

I have loved this life. I smile because I have tiny dreams that play hopscotch at the corners of my mouth. And every time I breathe they float, every time I laugh, they fly kites.

A question like “do you love me?” was an itch our doctors told us not to scratch.

The majority of men could sooner be brought to believe themselves a piece of lava in the moon than to take themselves for a self.

Man therefore is responsible for what transpires here.

Today's vision is tomorrow's reality.

A code of values accepted by choice is a code of morality.

Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer

It actually took me 20 years to want to write about my youth. I was definitely always a little intimidated about writing about that part of my life.

The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the physical presence.

Does it take the harsh light of disaster to show a person’s true nature?

There's the old joke, "What's the difference between country and redneck? Well, that's three hundred dollars."

If a scientist is not befuddled by what they're looking at, then they're not a research scientist.