You have to be your own person. You can't let people's opinions determine how you think about yourself. There's a difference between identity and self-identity.

Chance is the first step you take, luck is what comes afterward.

It's a luxury being a writer, because all you ever think about is life.

I love and am loved, fully and freely, nothing expected, more than enough received.

Then she told me why a tiger is gold and black. It has two ways. The gold side leaps with its fierce heart. The black side stands still with cunning, hiding its gold between the trees, seeing and not being seen, waiting patiently for things to come. I did not learn to use my black side until after the bad man left me.

Your life is what you see in front of you. -An-mei

We all had our miseries. But to despair was to wish back for something already lost. Or to prolong what was already unbearable. -Suyuan