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.

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.

A good day is a good day. A bad day is a good story.

No relationship would be successful without a little compromise. If you can't learn to do that then I'm sorry to say your relationship will never survive. Love is about giving and taking, it's not just about smiles and kind words. Compromise is key.

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.

Don't let yourself become so concerned with raising a good kid that you forget you already have one.