“Feelings don’t have to make sense to be valid.”

Life isn’t trying to break you down. It’s trying to break you open.

You don’t hold place for everyone’s shit.

You don’t have to be “finished” your healing work before entering into your relationship.

Imagine what you could be doing with all the energy you give away to people who don’t want what you want.

Choose the path that feels lighter.

Power and energy games only exist in a relationship when the ego is at the wheel. When we heal our hearts, we can show up as mature beings in service to love.

Ghosting is an expression of extreme anxiety and fear of intimacy. As much as it hurts to be on the receiving end, please know it was never about you.

Our ability to receive love is a mirror of our own self worth. Until we learn to receive love with an open heart, we’re limited to how deep our relationships can go.

One of the most painful things we can do is live our whole lives believing everything our mind tells us.

We cannot save people. But we can love them. And this is the highest expression of our essence.

Authentic love can be unconditional and still require reciprocity, respect, and mutual willingness.

Your partner is your spiritual teacher.

Healing takes time. Be gentle with yourself.

Coming home to yourself is the process of remembrance.

Opening your heart and being vulnerable in the face of fear is the most courageous thing you can do.

If they say they don’t want a relationship right now, that’s not an invitation to sit in their waiting room.

I hope that my painting has the impact of giving someone, as it did me, the feeling of his own totality, of his own separateness, of his own individuality.

Psychopaths know intellectually what is immoral they just don’t have a feeling of immorality about it.

I get from the soil and spirit of Texas the feeling that I, as an individual, can accomplish whatever I want to, and that there are no limits, that you can just keep going, just keep soaring. I like that spirit.

I felt how important the simplest things were, like feeling proud, finding something funny, stretching yourself, retreating into yourself.

Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.

One cannot live with sighted eyes and feeling heart and not know and read of the miseries which affect the world.

Whenever feeling downcast, each person should vitally remember, “For my sake, the entire world was created.”

It’s a very frustrated feeling you get when the only people with good photos of you work are the police department.