Sometimes,” he said after a second that lasted a million years, “things get broken. And they can’t be fixed.

But the problem with looking back when you should be walking ahead is that you usually end up walking into something that hurts.

But sometimes it's the sunshine that frightens us more than the big black shadows.

When you find someone who makes you smile and laugh, when you find someone who makes you feel safe…you shouldn’t let that person go just because you’re afraid.

I waited for a long time and there was nothing but the pain of wanting something I couldn't seem to find.

You don’t have to be sad to miss someone and wish they were still in your life.

Good things, by their nature, are fleeting. It’s those that bring us grief that linger.

Love is always real, even when it doesn’t last.

All men have the stars, but they are not the same things for different people.

Jealousy smells like the water in the bottom of a flower vase after the flowers have died.

When everything changes we learn who we really are. What’s really important. What we want most. We discover the truth in moments of disarray.

People will kill you. Over time. They will shave out every last morsel of fun in you with little, harmless sounding phrases that people uses every day, like: 'Be realistic!'" (2009)]

Expectation and disappointment are far from friends but they are close relations.

Allow the beauty of all that we love be reflected in who we are and in our actions.

The best kind of day is a writing day

An element of wisdom is knowing that life experiences are blood brothers with climate change, whether you have the resources to detect weather changes, it can still surprise you anytime.

...I think that people who make judgements about other people they don't even know are shallow, and people who start rumors are shallow, and I really don't care what shallow people say about me.

Everything you do leaves traces, doesn't it. The life you've lived is written all over you, for those who can read.

I was successful with mediocre material because of a good recording voice that people really liked at that time.

Soul puts the determination or forms or images of forms, into matter.

Faithfulness to the moment and to the present circumstance entails continuous surrender.