Keep on Expressing.

“How you make others feel about themselves says a lot about you.”

“A careful inventory of all your past experiences may disclose the startling fact that everything has happened for the best.”

“Make yourself so happy so that when others look at you they become happy, too.”

“You think it’s so easy to change yourself. You think it’s so easy, but it’s not. True, things don’t stay the same forever: couches are replaced, boys leave, you discover a song, your body becomes forever scarred. And with each of these moments you change and change again, your true self spinning, shifting positions– but always at last it returns to you, like a dancer on the floor. Because throughout it all, you are still, always, you: beautiful and bruised, known and unknowable. And isn’t that―just you―enough.”

The thrill of walking beside you and feeling the unique fragrance of your skin kiss the air between us and twine with mine. Your hand, the sweetest weight in my hand, its warmth, the kiss of rose-colored sky. My smile captured and reflected to me in your green glass kaleidoscope eyes. Soul sparkling while time floats suspended in the magic of our touch.

“You have to let go of what could have been, how you should have acted and what you wish you would have said differently. You have to accept that you can’t change the past experiences, opinions of others at that moment in time or outcomes from their choices or yours. When you finally recognize that truth then you will understand the true meaning of forgiveness of yourself and others. From this point you will finally be free.”

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind.”

“The bravest thing I ever did was continuing my life when I wanted to die.”