Stay strong, handsome.

“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’ You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”

“If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.”

“Even when darkness consumes your mind, you are the light in other people’s lives.”

“I remember not wanting to get out of bed, and everyone yelling at me to stop going to sleep so late. But it wasn’t that, I was not tired at all. I was sad, I was so very sad that even getting out of bed seemed pointless to me. It was hard, being so sad that it became a struggle to get up in the mornings.”

“I don’t need another temporary person. I want someone who, even when I am an unlovable mess, will look at me with love in their eyes and stay.”