Being unheard is the ground floor of giving up.

All that happens when your dreams come true is a slow, melting realization that it wasn't what you thought.

We all have two things in common, no matter who we are: We were born and we are going to die.

I asked myself, 'Am I going to withdraw from the world, like most people do, or am I going to live?' I decided I am going to live - or at least try to live - the way I want, with dignity, with courage, with humor, with composure.

Don't cling to things, because everything is impermanent... But detachment doesn't mean you don't let the experience penetrate you. On the contrary, you let it penetrate you fully. That's how you are able to leave it...You're afraid of the pain, you're afraid of the grief... But by throwing yourself into these emotions, by allowing yourself to dive in, all the way, over your head even, you experience them fully and completely.You know what pain is. You know what love is. "All right. I have experienced that emotion. I recognize that emotion. Now I need to detach from that emotion for a moment.

I think what you notice most when you haven’t been home in a while is how much the trees have grown around your memories.

Man wants to own his existence. But no one owns time.