“I try so hard to cloak my impurity so that I can hide my shadows from everyone around me. I’ll summon this will, and instead, command it to keep myself alive.”

We all end up loving the ones who don’t love us back. 

You can’t build a strong connection to the one who is disconnect from himself.

Declutter everyone who doesn’t see and appreciate your presence.

Time is a gentleman! It never erases beautiful things.

I’m a man, not a puppet so I dance recklessly like a dog free of the chain.

You grow more with the pain than with pleasure.

Hurting people back won’t heal your wounds – forgiveness does.

Expectations keep us in a victim role. They keep us blaming. They keep us looking outward. They keep us stuck.  

Do not depend on others for the things you can do yourself.

Attachment gives birth to expectations.

You just need a few more no’s in the day.

Anxiety is so comfortable that people are more willing to live with it rather than willing to heal from it.

A bitter truth: some people are comfortable with your acceptance of their abuse.⁣

To be aware & not to act: The worst misfortune.

He is the epitome of wildflower, growing with no one to care.

Acceptance breeds self-love.

I am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy to be alive as long as I can paint.

You don’t have to have a reason to feel good, you’re alive; you can feel good for no reason at all!

The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.

I had reasoned this out in my mind; there was on of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other; for no man should take me alive.

I am happy to be alive, as long as I can paint.

I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.

I would like to make a film to tell children “it’s good to be alive”.

The world is more alive at night; it’s like God isn’t looking.