Your past and your pain will certainly impact you, but they don’t have to define you. You get to write your own definition.

There's just as much wisdom in knowing when to keep quiet as there is in knowing when to speak up. Use your voice wisely.

In my experience, it is always worth it to find the love that lives inside you. No matter how deep you have to dig sometimes.

Give people a chance.

Shit works out.

A happiness trick:do more things that make you happy, and you'll be happy more often.

There is absolutely no point in comparing ourselves to others. Everyone brings to the world exactly what they are meant to bring, and in doing so touches exactly who they are meant to touch.

No one determines your truth but you.You can’t paint your own self-portrait with someone else’s hand.

I finally stopped seeking in others everything I could only find in myself.

We can’t heal what we refuse to acknowledge.

I can’t control my feelings, but I’m learning to have a say in how much my feelings control me.

You opinions about me does not change who I am.

Haunted by demons of the past, hounded by demons not yet met, the nevermore and evermore left her little peace.” ~A Tale of Two Women

I love water - I'm an Aquarius, but that has nothing to do with it - and I've never been away from water in any place.

I am more at peace than I've ever known myself to be. My connectedness to the world is more intense. I am more attentive to the humanity around me.

How different it all was from what you'd planned.

It turns out we're very good at not seeing things

We need American sources of resources, we need American energy, brought to you by American ingenuity and produced by American workers.

You are far more likely to do your best work if you are willing to delight a few as opposed to soothe the masses.

I got a degree in math, from not a good school in Texas, and then I went to work as a software engineer. Just not glamorous at all.