There's something comforting about the companionship of animals in a new place.

... because there will never be any boy's wrist to tie the balloon of your helium heart to {it has floated high far away from the heavy stone of that unnameable boy in chicago}, you would never be...

Hello? Do you see me? I'm working as creatively as possible and you want more and more and I'm out of juice and if you send me one more email I'm going to walk into the ocean and swallow water.

Ghosts are just our minds telling us that subconsciously we feel guilty about something we should have done, would have done, but never took the time!

I found it hard to get motivated because I found it hard to care.

Stupid dire warnings of imminent doom. They always put me in a bad mood.

To you who eat a lot of rice because you're lonely, To you who sleep a lot because you're bored, To you who cry a lot because you are sad, I write this down. Chew on your feelings that are cornered...

Does someone else care as much about you as I do?

The worst thing you can do is to hate someone. The best thing you can do is to totally love someone without expectations.

Are you unhappy? Ok. Being unhappy is a part of life

Practically all the sadness we experience in life comes from our feeling sorry for ourselves.

Forgiveness can help you to be sane.

I guess forgiveness, like happiness, isn't a final destination. You don't one day get there and get to stay.

A smile is a God given sun that lights up our lives in the midst of darkness

Darkness is more than a shade of nightfall. It is a feeling as though there has been an eclipse not only within what should be a vibrant life inside you but in all that is good around you.

Survivors who don't stand up for themselves often develop physical and emotional illnesses. Many become depressed because they feel so hopeless and helpless about being able to change their lives....

It's not only about sadness. In truth, sadness really has little to do with it. Depression is pain in its purest form and I would do anything to be able to feel an emotion again. Any emotion at all....

Some people are just like snakes, they will never understand your love.

Letting go of sorrow gives you enough strength to carry happiness. Letting go of anger gives you enough strength to carry kindness. Letting go of fear gives you enough strength to carry hopefulness....

There ought to be laughter in love. But there also ought to be wonder.

But there is an overarching passion that keeps me alive. That is love, understood as a condition in which I can be an inspiration, make someone feel happy and special, and in turn, feel understood and...

Be courageous enough to forgive yourself

Maddie breathed in deep, inhaling the scent of breakfast and dish soap, clean laundry and wood floors, sunshine and a room filled with love. It smelled like home.

The music video will die when we all go blind, and music will never die, because even when you can't hear it, you can feel it.

My love, you are always on my mind and heart.

The path to misery is paved by the tears of those trying to make others happy.

Attachment is the source of pain, but detachment is the source of joy.

More people die from the hunger of love than from the lack of food.

Music made me kinder. Music made me a lover.

Out of all the things that look & bleed, the most bruised is a man who has seen his dreams crushed and experienced miserable hopelessness.