Your recognition gives it its beauty and its presence.

You’re allowed to be great at a lot of things that don’t necessarily relate to one another.

Don’t confuse a broken dream with a broken future. Don’t confuse a broken heart for a broken life.

you can have everything, just not at the same time.

We walk around with the cripplingly false idea that we must adjust how things are, as opposed to adjusting how we are and how we see them.

we assume people are as we imagine them—a compilation of the emotional experiences we’ve had with them—as opposed to the patterns they reveal to us in their behavior.

Being that our only frame of reference at any given time is what’s happened in the past,

The measure of a life well lived is a cultural, social concept, and it’s changed over time.

Don’t trust all of your feelings.