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

Creating ways to be happy is your life's work, a challenge that won't end until you die.

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

Imagine what you'd do if it absolutely didn't matter what people thought of you. Got it? Good. Never go back.

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.

No one can give you anything-love, shame, self-esteem- until you give it to yourself. Today, give yourself good things.

If you'd rather live surrounded by pristine objects than by the traces of happy memories, stay focused on tangible things. Otherwise, stop fixating on stuff you can touch and start caring about stuff that touches you.