“Have you found someone to share your heart with? Are you giving to your community? Are you at peace with yourself? Are you trying to be as human as you can be?”

This is part of what a family is about, not just love. It’s knowing that your family will be there watching out for you. Nothing else will give you that. Not money. Not fame. Not work.

Accept who you are; and revel in it.

All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair.

I think what you notice most when you haven’t been home in a while is how much the trees have grown around your memories.

We cannot stop what Heaven chooses.

There are no random acts, We are all connected. You can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind.

Do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself.

She had been so consumed with escaping her own misery, she hadn’t considered the misery she might inflict.

The words people do not speak are louder than the ones they do.

But she wasn’t around, and that’s the thing when your parents die, you feel like instead of going in to every fight with backup, you are going into every fight alone.

We need to forgive ourselves. For all the things we didn’t do. All the things we should have done. You can’t get stuck on the regrets of what should have happened.

Remember, the only difference between ‘marital’ and ‘martial’ is where you put the ‘i’.

Don’t cling to things because everything is impermanent.

Sharing tales of those we’ve lost is how we keep from really losing them.

The most inspirational man I knew only reached his potential by helping a child reach his.

It’s such a shame to waste time. We always think we have so much of it.