JOYFUL

one thing you wish you had known in your 'teen years'

What was the hardest thing to accept about life?

Do you regret dating someone?

What has traveling taught you?

I don’t know when you’ll be ready for me. It might be next month or next year. Whenever it is, just know that I have absolutely no doubt that we can make this work. I know we can. If there are two people in this world capable of finding a way to love each other, it’s us.

No matter how interminable something feels, there is always, always an ending. Sometimes that’s good, and sometimes it’s bad; sometimes it’s a matter of indifference, and sometimes it’s heartbreaking, and your life is never the same thereafter.

Don’t take my advice. Or anyone’s advice. Trust yourself. For good or for bad, happy or unhappy, it’s your life, and what you do with it has always been entirely up to you.

Don’t take life too seriously. Punch it in the face when it needs a good hit. Laugh at it.

The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.

I know now that I don’t want to love or be loved in half measures. I want it all, and to have it all, you have to risk it all.

When someone won’t let you in, eventually you stop knocking. Know what I mean?

Don’t you think it’s better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be just okay for your whole life?

Every child finds a day when they realize that adults can be weak and wrong just like everyone else. After that day, you are an adult. Like it or not.

There is always something left to love.

I hope there are days when you fall in love with being alive.