My goal is to try to be as happy as I can - going through every day just as it is.

That's what just hit me: How you really can't have everything. You have to give up the old to get the new. You can't be the child and the mom at the same time. You can't be your young self and your old self at the same time. You can't know what you know now and feel the way you did then. You can't, you can't, you can't.

We are only as great as our struggles. We only become who we are in the face of them.

Our lives disappear, even as we live them.

Success is doing the right thing for who you are.

What matters most is how you respond to your heartbreaks and your disappointments and your fears. What matters most is who you become in response to them.

There is no question that the objects that surround us impact our experience of the world.