Before, I thought I was actually fighting for my own self-worth; that is why I so desperately wanted people to like me. I thought their liking me was a comment on me, but it was a comment on them.

Because the results are unpredictable, no effort of mine is doomed to failure.

Some people will like me and some won't. So I might as well be myself, and then at least I'll know that the people who like me, like me.

Love, the magician, knows this little trick whereby two people walk in different directions yet always remain side by side.

Happiness is a present attitude and not a future condition.

There is no place love is not.

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.