The unending paradox is that we do learn through pain.

We are all afraid to say too much, to feel too deeply, to let people know what they mean to us.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature.

I learned that you have to push away the demand of people's expectations by believing in your instincts.

Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses, and disappointments.

Risk something or forever sit with your dreams.

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

When someone tells me “no,” it doesn't mean I can't do it, it simply means I can't do it with them.

There is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.

Only love can heal the wounds of the past.