Our lives will only ever always continue to be a balancing act that has less to do with pain and more to do with beauty.

Our lives will only ever always continue to be a balancing act that has less to do with pain and more to do with beauty.

I sit before flowers hoping they will train me in the art of opening up I stand on mountain tops believing that avalanches will teach me to let go I know nothing but I am here to learn.

I'm not the only kid who grew up this way, surrounded by people who used to say that rhyme about sticks and stones, as if broken bones hurt more than the names we got called, and we got called them all. So we grew up believing no one would ever fall in love with us, that we'd be lonely forever, that we'd never meet someone to make us feel like the sun was something they built for us in their toolshed. So broken heartstrings bled the blues, and we tried to empty ourselves so we'd feel nothing. Don't tell me that hurts less than a broken bone...

Look directly into every mirror. Realize our reflection is the first sentence to a story, and our story starts: We were here.

The tiniest dream that you make happen is worth more than the biggest dream that you never attempt.

I've been told that people in the army do more by 7:00 am than I do in an entire day But if I wake at 6:59 am and turn to you to trace the outline of your lips with mine I will have done enough and killed no one in the process.