You are not a machine. You are more like a garden. You need different things on different days. A little sun today, a little less water tomorrow. You have fallow and fruitful seasons. It is not a design flaw. It is wiser than perpetual sameness. What does your garden need today?

“Don’t run from lessons; they are little packages of treasure that have been given to us. As we learn from them, our lives change for the better.”

“I have sea foam in my veins, I understand the language of waves.”

“Stop doing what is easy or popular. Start doing what is right.”

“Please do yourself a favour. Don’t lower your standards to fit in. Don’t shrink who you are to make others feel comfortable. Do find and surround yourself with people who like you just the way you are and who encourage you to keep growing.”

“Almost. Its a big word for me. I feel it everywhere. Almost home. Almost happy. Almost changed. Almost, but not quite. Not yet. Soon, maybe.”

“Someone can be madly in love with you and still not be ready. They can love you in a way you have never been loved and still not join you on the bridge. And whatever their reasons you must leave. Because you never ever have to inspire anyone to meet you on the bridge. You never ever have to convince someone to do the work to be ready. There is more extraordinary love, more love that you have never seen, out here in this wide and wild universe. And there is the love that will be ready.”

“This is what I like about photographs. Theyre proof that once, even if just for a heartbeat, everything was perfect.”

“Do you ever realize how badly youre going to miss a moment while youre living it? Like wow, these are the good days. I am here and I am happy and I am alive.”