It’s never occurred to me that the stars are still up there shining even in the daytime when we can’t see them.

I wish my shadow would get up and walk beside me.

Who wants to know that the person you love and need the most can just vanish forever

She's a sun-kissed beach girl who goes gothgrungepunkhippierockeremocoremetalfreakfashionistabraingeekboycrazyhiphoprastagirl to keep it under wraps.

When people fall in love, they burst into flames.

The first thing I notice is the sky, so full of blue and the kind of brilliant white clouds that make you ecstatic to have eyes. Nothing can go wrong under this sky.

I'm layering away: sauce, noodles, I belong to you, cheese, sauce, my heart is yours, noodles, cheese, I hear your soul in your music, cheese, cheese, CHEESE.

... if you're someone who knows the worst thing can happen at any time, aren't you also someone who knows the best thing can happen at any time too?

In one split second I saw everything I could be, everything I want to be. And all that I'm not.

I always imagined music trapped inside my clarinet, not trapped inside of me. But what if music is what escapes when a heart breaks?

Grief is forever. It doesn't go away; it becomes part of you, step for step, breath for breath.

She curled those fingers around him and gave a long, lazy pull. "No underwear?""Didn't want to slow you down.

Anger and bitterness—whatever the cause—only end up hurting us. Turn that anger over to Christ.

The more we practice mindfulness the more we understand the emotional dynamics of the self and others. Mindful emotions can create a positive climate leading to better outcomes.

i'm only an independent woman when there's nothing heavy to carry

Every failure made me more confident. Because I wanted even more to achieve things as revenge. To show that I could.

...Any authentic creation is a gift to the future.

If there isn't an emanation of love and joy, complete presence and openness toward all beings, then it is not enlightenment.

Are you nervous about no longer being a big fish in a small pond?

Early on it was much easier to play leads, but now independent movies are being co-opted by the studio system, and they want bigger names to guarantee more audience and more numbers.

Language is the spiritual exhalation of the nation.