My mother gave me a piece of bread, which was love and encouragement. The correction was the meat, the substance. And then she would sandwich that, sandwich that with another piece of bread, which was love and encouragement. That was very important in shaping and molding our morality, our understanding of ourselves, making sure that we didn’t think we were better than or less than anyone, feeling no more worthy or no less worthy than anyone else.

Since those who believe they need a hero/celebrity outnumber the actual heroes/celebrities, people feel safe and comfortably justified in numbers, committing egregious crimes in the name of the greater social ego. Ironically diminishing their own true hero-celebrity nature in the process.

We should constantly be aspiring to reach higher and higher and higher. We should never be comfortable where we are.

It could all be so simple, but you'd rather make it hard, loving you is like a battle, and we both end up with scars

Be honest, brutally honest. That is what's going to maintain relationships.

See fantasy is what people want, but reality is what they need. And I just retired from the fantasy part.

Now you are meeting another Lauryn, so it's good to be reintroduced.