I had to come to terms with the fact that I wouldn’t have peace with myself until I found a way to like myself.

I believe having a healthy emotional will help in your ability to communicate and to connect to others. We have to learn how to express our feelings especially the negative ones.

Never settle... go after your dreams aggressively. Ignore the doubters, step over them. Stay focus on your prize.

The key for me was to have faith and trust in God to transform me. This was scary because the foundation that once kept me safe and secure was being taken from me!

Our need to control eventually works against us b/c we start to repress what we truly feel, need and want. God is in control so trust in that more than yourself!

Make sure your priorities line up with your values.

Coachella is a festival fashion show where people dress up like hippies and pretend that Passion Pit is as good as the Rolling Stones.

Being shy is a symptom of a low self-esteem.

I’m not putting that in my mouth.

The weight of the dead was heavier than the pounds of the body.

If your self-talk leans toward the negative, the continual bashing will become debilitating

My father some times he goes crazy, but sometimes nerves, crazy and mad in one place it's like daemon have started to control his life so he ended his life.

My mother-in-law speaks not a word of English. I speak not a word of Tajiki. So I smile at her ingratiatingly and she fixes me with a beady eye.

When you drank the world was still out there, but for the moment it didn’t have you by the throat.

It is pitiful when a man bears a name for convenience merely, who has earned neither name nor fame.

You are not enclosed within your bodies, nor confined to houses or fields. That which is you dwells above the mountain and roves with the wind.