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

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

“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.”

“Being myself includes taking risks with myself, taking risks on new behavior, trying new ways of 'being myself', so that I can see who it is I want to be.”

“Don't strive for love, be it.”

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

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