“Listen as I promise, you deserve everything, especially to love again.”

Of all the tragedies on this earth, there is none more tragic than a person who cannot see their worth.

One day you are ordering coffee every morning and the next you can’t even order coffee without thinking about ordering theirs too.

You spend your whole life convincing yourself you are a chapter worth following, and then someone comes along and doesn’t want to read the ending, and suddenly the whole story falls apart.

Some moments have to happen so they may shape you, teach you, undo you, and remake you.

Be kind to yourself, the way you would be to someone you love.

The aches in my arms still surprise me, even years after letting you go.

When you take a lover who uncovers all your flaws, listens to the very essence of who you are and embraces you rather than judges you, hold on to this love for a lifetime, as you will never find a love quite as pure.

I think if you let me, I’d build an observatory just to show you that all the stars in the universe will never shine as brightly as you.

Then I am reminded that life will continue on, regardless of whether I choose to board the train or stay on the platform.

By existing you are planting softness in soil that has turned hard. There is no need to surrender your existence. You are doing just fine by even existing at all.

I’ve been thinking about our forever, how memories fade but the light in our eyes stays.

I am no more the person that you left than you are the person I miss.

You achieve all your dreams by facing your fears. By experiencing the doubt and the disbelief and choosing to carry on anyway.

So I’ll stand here for you In the wind and the rain And I’ll be the lighthouse you need.

The tragedy of what could have been is nearly as crippling as what once was but can never be again.

I have been a little off balance since the day I met you. This is because I had never known what it is like to be perfectly aligned.

Listen to the song of life.

Men are wary of me because they know, by listening to my music, that a relationship with me will be quite deep.

I listened to a lot of Marvin Gaye and Motown records.

I pride myself in listening. When you have people paying attention to you, your biggest job is to listen what they want. Deliver what your community wants.

There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.

The world will try to tell you that you need stuff to be somebody. Don’t listen.

Listening is a form of spiritual hospitality by which you invite strangers to become friends, to get to know their inner selves more fully, and even to dare to be silent with you.

Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.