To care for someone can mean to adore them, feed them, tend their wounds. But care can also signify sorrow, as in "bowed down by cares." Or anxiety, as in "Careful!" Or investment in an outcome, as in "Who cares?" The word love has no such range of meaning: It's pure acceptance.

A confession you make merely to illuminate the murky corners of your little life may end up lighting the path to freedom for a thousand other hearts.

Stop trying to change your behavior; instead, rethink your beliefs

The repercussions of one person living in stubborn gladness are incalculable.

People are so afraid of authority figures and doctors are authority figures.

Denial exists because human infants, though equipped with trust-o-meters, are built to trust, blindly and absolutely, any older person who wanders past.

If you're living completely on your own, break out of solitary confinement. Seek to understand others, and help them understand you