The only thing that ever came close to tugging my heart strings is music. I know this because that is the only time I've felt them move.

So I found myself telling my own stories. It was strange: as I did it I realised how much we get shaped by our stories. It's like the stories of our lives make us the people we are. If someone had no...

This is what you have to ask yourself: Do you want to be good, or just seem good? Do you want to be good to yourself and others? Do you care about other people, always, sometimes, never? Or only when...

I was still searching for someone to blame for my suffering. I really wanted someone to transfer my hate to, so that I could stop hating myself.

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!

Sometimes the closer we got to a situation, the less clear it looked.

What could anyone confess that would be worth anything or serve any useful purpose? What has happened to us has either happened to everyone or to us alone

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

And I've learned to hit the brakes at these kinds of stop signs rather than t-boning a tanker truck filled with 200 proof mediocrity.

You think you have a handle on God, the Universe, and the Great White Light until you go home for Thanksgiving. In an hour, you realize how far you've got to go and who is the real turkey.

My head's swimming. Sorry, sis. I'm a useless brother. You're best off shot of me. - Burt

What if there's no such thing as PMS, and this is just my personality?

Mr. Pembroke, watching his broad back, desired to bury a knife in it. The desire passed, partly because it was unclerical, partly because he had no knife, and partly because he soon blurred over what...

Your suffering is there to inspect you and perfect you. We are made complete by our pain.

My first strike was marrying a guy without a college degree. My second and third were getting pregnant. I suppose that when I didn't go on to become the next Gloria Allred, she was justified in...

This is me today, but take heed; it is not the same me as yesterday, and it will not be the same me tomorrow.

Be confident enough to show your true self to the world.

Writing about the self to spur intellectual growth or attain a teardrop of emotional salvation is akin to a fish attempting to construct a net that will capture itself.

... I'm not afraid of the opinions of others - but of being needed and coming up short ...

If you think, you are important, you are not.

If we all desire love and acceptance, shouldn't we love and accept all others?

Silence can bring us into alignment with our thoughts and feelings and help us to hear the quiet spiritual voice of our intuition.

It is rooted deep in your bones

There's not a lot to do when you don't want to do anything.

When you are alone you can easily judge yourself.

I gave them everything I had, and I guess it feels alright. I gave them my body, and they use it every night.

Some spend their lives chasing money; while some live theirs with a strong positive purpose, but then you have those who spend their lifetime on earth running away from both.

We talk what we think but do what we believe.

I am suspended in the moment. Flickering images faded with age, frozen thoughts hovering precariously in dead space, a whirlwind of memories that slice through my soul.

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