What do I believe that I deserve in this life?

I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises.

This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.

Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.

Do not apologize for crying. Without this emotion, we are only robots.

Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation.

At some point, you gotta let go, and sit still, and allow contentment to come to you.

Zen masters say you cannot see your reflection in running water, only in still water.

That’s the thing about a human life-there’s no control group, no way to ever know how any of us would have turned out if any variables had been changed.

Dear Lord, please show me everything I need to understand about forgiveness and surrender

There is a reason they call God a presence - because God is right here, right now. In the present is the only place to find Him, and now is the only time.

Whether you choose left or right path, but the destination should have the contentment of Soul"-Samar Sudha

The idyll ended, as idylls must.

To me the biggest irony of this lifetime that I'm living is that for someone who thrives in the public eye in the creative ways that I do, I actually don't enjoy being in the public eye.

It is not great talents God blesses so much as likeness to Jesus.

Empathic, emotionally intelligent work environments have a good track record of increasing creativity, improving problem solving and raising productivity.

Spending time in a church does not make you religious, any more than spending time in a garage makes you a car.

I've been knocked out a few times , but I have no idea how many concussions I've ever had.

You must always strive to be the best, but you must never believe that you are.

A lot of the time when I write about the person that I love, I feel like I'm writing about New York.

Together we can face any challenges as deep as the ocean and as high as the sky.