Most of us remain strangers to ourselves, hiding who we are, and ask other strangers, hiding who they are, to love us.
The hardest battle you're ever going to fight is the battle to be just you.
To love oneself is to struggle to rediscover and maintain your uniqueness
Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.
Happiness is intrinsic, it's an internal thing. When you build it into yourself, no external circumstances can take it away.
To this day I cannot see a bright daffodil, a proud gladiola, or a smooth eggplant without thinking of Papa. Like his plants and trees, I grew up as a part of his garden.