Allowing children to show their guilt, show their grief, show their anger, takes the sting out of the situation.

You're exactly where you're meant to be, meandering along a crooked path.

Don’t worry that you’ve wasted time. Each moment -- no matter how frozen or confused -- was a useful and necessary lesson.

When you do the thing you fear, the thing loses its power to scare.

Instead of hiding your loneliness, bring it into the light. Honor it. Treat it. Heal it. You'll find that it returns the favor.

Bad artists ignore the darkness of human existence. Good artists often get stuck there. Great artists embrace the full catastrophe of our condition and find beyond it an even deeper truth of peace, healing, and redemption.

When you're weary, find relief. When you're strong, find delight.