“Don't strive for love, be it.”

“I don't need a "reason" to be happy. I don't have to consult the future to know how happy I feel now.”

“All my life, I have made it complicated, but it is so simple. I love when I love. And when I love, I am myself.”

“Today I don't want to live for, I want to live.”

“It's not that we fear the place of darkness, but that we don't think we are worth the effort to find the place of light.”

“We feel understood by people who like us; misunderstood by people who don't -- and those feelings are probably realistic.”

“perfectionism is a slow death. if everything were to turn out just like i would want it to, just like i would plan for it to, then i would never experience anything new; my life would be an endless repetition of stale successes. when i make a mistake i experience something unexpected.... when i have listened to my mistakes i have grown.”