Yeah. I mean, acknowledging is easy. Something happened or it didn't. But understanding... that's where things get sticky.

Accepting all the good and bad about someone. It's a great thing to aspire to. The hard part is actually doing it.

It wasn't about being happy or unhappy. I just didn't want to be me anymore.

It was amazing how you could get so far from where you'd planned, and yet find it was exactly were you needed to be.

I mean, it's not surprising, really. Once you love something, you always love it in some way. You have to. It's, like, part of you for good.

All those clean, fresh starts had made me forget what it was like, until now, to be messy and honest and out of control. To be real.

You asked me to go out with you. I know you probably changed your mind. But you should know, the answer was yes. It's always been yes when it comes to you.

It was kind of soothing, these sounds of lives being lived all around me, for better or for worse. And there I was, in the middle of them all, newly reborn and still waiting for mine to begin.

You could just tell when a person belonged somewhere. That is something you can't fake, no matter how hard you try

I mean, it's impossible to fake anything if you've already seen the other person in a way they'd never choose for you to. You can't go back from that.

You want to take me to a movie?" I asked. "Well, not really, " he said. "What I really want is for you to be my girlfriend. But I thought saying that might scare you off.

Keep on dreaming, you will get to your destination.

Empathy is a hand thick with scars offering you a bandage.

Sometimes, the only way to exorcise old ghosts is to pack your bags and move in with them.

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future it is something you design for the present.

Change provides us with experiences that we convert to personal power.

For life is tendency, and the essence of a tendency is to develop in the form of a sheaf, creating, by its very growth, divergent directions among which its impetus is divided.

A new poll found that almost 70 percent of voters say that whoever our next president is, they must have political experience. You know, because it would be rude to say 'anyone but Donald Trump.'

I would never sign on to a project that was male-bashing, because first and foremost I'm a man... what guy would sign on for that?

No matter how long you practiceyou sense there will always be something to learn,something more to embrace about yourself & life.

I've been attracted to imagery and occasionally I've drawn from it, but I never thought I'd be painting these paintings. I didn't have any desire to. I didn't think there was any reason to.