“No matter what we talk about, we are talking about ourselves”

“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.”

“By approaching my problems with "What might make things a little better?" rather than "What is the solution?" I avoid setting myself up for certain frustration. My experience has shown me that I am not going to solve anything in one stroke; at best I am only going to chip away at it.”

“What an absurd amount of energy I have been wasting all my life trying to find out how things 'really are', when all the time they weren't.”

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

“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.”