Joy must be chosen, but the deeper conundrum is that it can't be controlled or cajoled as to when it will come or how long it will stay.
Keep an eye on your responses. Strong responses are about you more than them.
Wherever Cool is, anyway, I missed it, and now I'm stuck observing these machinations or sex and status and dancing and parties and people sucking at each other under the bleacher seating like some ki...
My mom told me to do whatever I wanted to do and don't get too anxious about it.
Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.
Life is just a schoolroom with a glorious opportunity to prepare us for eternity.
The hurt that troubled children create is never greater than the hurt they feel.
How is it possible that suffering that is neither my own nor of my concern should immediately affect me as though it were my own, and with such force that is moves me to action?
In time, all great masterpieces turn into shameless creatures who laugh at their creators.
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
It is time to embrace mental health and substance use/abuse as illnesses. Addiction is a disease.