I still get very high and very low in life. Daily. But I've finally accepted the fact that sensitive is just how I was made, that I don't have to hide it and I don't have to fix it. I'm not broken.

I think when your heart hurts this much it means you opened it wide once- and that is something to be proud of.

I was what they call a 'highly functional addict.' ... sometimes people who need help look nothing like people who need help.

During my drinking decades, I lived like a pig. My room was a hazardous pile of stilettos, tube tops, wine bottles, ashtrays, and old magazines. I valued nothing. Everything that came into my life was disposable: clothes, opportunities, people. My bedroom looked as if my insides had spilled out onto the floor.

There are only two lives we might live: our dream or our destiny. Sometimes they are one in the same, and sometimes they're not. Often our dreams are just a path to our destinies.

It is a decision that compassion is more important than fear, than fitting in, than following the crowd.

The only meaningful thing we can offer one another is love. Not advice, not questions about our choices, not suggestions for the future, just love.