Fears, indecision, and frustration feed on words. Without words they usually stop. . . . Words are at times good for looking back, but they are confining when I need to act in the present.

perfectionism is a slow death. if everything were to turn out just like i would want it to, just like i would plan for it to, then i would never experience anything new; my life would be an endless repetition of stale successes. when i make a mistake i experience something unexpected.... when i have listened to my mistakes i have grown.

Support your friends - even in their mistakes. But be clear, however, that it is the friend and not the mistake you are supporting.

Very seldom will a person give up on himself. He continues to have hope because he knows he has the potential for change. He tries again - not just to exist, but to bring about those changes in himself that will make life worth living. Yet people are very quick to give up on friends, and especially on their spouses, to declare them hopeless, and to either walk away or do nothing more than resign themselves to a bad situation.

Most words evolved as a description of the outside world, hence their inadequacy to describe what is going on inside me.

An argument is always about what has been made more important than the relationship.

I don't need a "reason" to be happy. I don't have to consult the future to know how happy I feel now.