Judge tenderly, if you must. There is usually a side you have not heard, a story you know nothing about, and a battle waged that you are not having to fight.

Judge tenderly, if you must. There is usually a side you have not heard, a story you know nothing about, and a battle waged that you are not having to fight.” ― Traci Lea LaRussa

It doesn’t matter how many times you get knocked down. All that matters is you get up one more time than you were knocked down.

May I see the beauty in others without denigrating my own.

Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature.

If you've experienced half of the things I've passed through in life, you wouldn't underestimate the power of love.

With ruin upon ruin, rout on rout, Confusion worse confounded.

When you have walked through the hell of your negative thoughts and survived, no pain on this earth will ever again worry you.

I feel like I try not to limit myself. So every experience so far, I've just gone headlong into.

When alien abductees recount to me their stories, I do not deny that they had a real experience.

Being articulate, my parents could make anything sound reasonable.

To be the first to enter the cosmos, to engage, single-handed, in an unprecedented duel with nature-could one dream of anything more?