“No matter what, you will always have you. Learn to appreciate that.”

Is it even love, if you have to fight so hard for it?

Treat yourself like you would your loved one, because you are exactly that.

Real love isn’t complicated. It’s easy. It’s comfortable, It’s warm. It feels like home.

Happiness is a choice and its the one you should be making every single day.

Let your dreams become your wings.

Sometimes you don’t get what you wish for, because you deserve so much better.

You are the love of your life.

Was it possible I just didn’t want to be happy.

Don’t give anyone the power to make you feel inferior.

You are both my illness and my remedy.

Don’t get sad when one chapter of your life ends, the next one will be better.

Be as kind to yourself as you are to others.

Your happiness is entirely up to you.

You are the only one who can set you free. Do it!

You are enough. Your life has meaning. Your emptiness are valid. You matter.

Why do you forgive everyone but not yourself?

All of these things can occur with or without God. I do not believe in the existence of God, but I consider myself a spiritual person in the manner I have just described. I call myself a spiritual atheist. I would imagine that many people are spiritual atheists.

For an understanding that our immediate actions have long-term consequences, and for an appreciation that there are different ways of knowing and understanding situations.

I remember back when I was a kid there was a comic strip called Plastic Man. His body was elastic and he could make his extremities as long as he wanted. As a youngster I didn’t fully appreciate. But I’m now thinking Plastic Man was probably pretty popular with the ladies.

And they didn’t spend years painting your soul into masterpiece-like existence for you to waste it on someone who doesn’t appreciate you.

My darling, he is just a boy. How can he possibly begin to appreciate the constellations you leave in your wake, or the stardust in your bones, when he has yet to realize just what it means to be in love with a girl like you?

And the appreciation of fans can refuel your spiritual tank in those situations. But until you’re famous, people don’t realize how difficult that is.

Prayer and encouraging words change things. We’re all human. We all go through stuff.

I always had a great appreciation for jazz, but I’m a very pedestrian musician. I get by. I like to think that my main instrument is vocabulary.