“We live in a time filled with noise but with exceptionally few listeners.”

Too much energy is dedicated to worrying instead of applying.

I just want you to know, it was an honor to be loved by you.

Our darkest moments are linked to our brightest accomplishments.

Be patient. Be sincere. Be humble. Be the best version of you.

I will never let the bad days hinder the good days yet to come.

Take hold of this life, you only get one.

The more time I take with myself, the happier I become with my own presence.

Normalize taking a moment out of your day to meditate or pray on the trials of your life.

You are worth it. You are worth saving.

Never beg for someone’s kindness.

Make your healing a religion.

Good deeds often have the greatest snowball effects.

There is no shame in wanting to heal. It is a chance to rebuild yourself, bigger and better than before.

The best parts of ourselves are the parts we are too afraid to show others.

Patient people prosper.

Your dirty laundry was never mine to carry.

If you listen to really deep ambient records that don’t move too much, very still records, long after those records are finished, you might find yourself listening for hours to the sound of the room.

….there is a difference between hearing and listening. You can’t always help what you hear. But you can control what holds your interest, what you choose to dwell on.

To do my job well, I have to be a good listener. The listening is so much more important than the talking.

Listening is one of the lesser-known skills that mistresses offer.

I’ve got to start listening to those quiet, nagging doubts.

John Kricfalusi is very talented; he used to really piss me off. But I did good work, you know? The Ren & Stimpy show without me was totally unsuccessful.

Listeners are kind of ambushed… if a poem just happens to be said when they’re listening to the radio. The listener doesn’t have time to deploy what I call their ‘poetry deflector shields’ that were installed in high school – there’s little time to resist the poem.

I grew up listening to the quartets and I loved that so much that I wanted to see if I could make music and make it happen. It was just a series of events … me going to concerts and saying “I think I can do that”.