I know this world is far from perfect. I am not the type to mistake a streetlight for the moon. I know our wounds are deep as the Atlantic. But every ocean has a shoreline and every shoreline has a tide that is constantly returning to wake the songbirds in our hands, to wake the music in our bones, to place one fearless kiss on the mouth of that new born river that has to run through the center of our hearts to find its way home.

If you’re handing out flashlights in the dark, start handing out stars.

Commit to loving yourself completely. It’s the most radical thing you will do in your lifetime.

I'm not lookin' for someone who can save me. Life rafts might keep you afloat but they rarely get you anywhere and I've got places I wanna go. So break me in two, peel back my rib cage and cover every page of my heart with love poems you will burn someday.

Someday we will dare to trade good for true

I am wrong more often than i am writing and even then i am often wrong

Fear is only a verb if you let it be. Don't you dare let go of my hand!