365, completely alive

I survived because the fire inside me burned brighter than the fire around me.

And it’s amazing how much noise people ignoring each other can make.

I am a series of small victories and large defeats and I am as amazed as any other that I have gotten from there to here.

Not responding is a response - we are equally responsible for what we don’t do.

Who the hell said you no longer had it in you?

I am still so naïve; I know pretty much what I like and dislike; but please, don’t ask me who I am. A passionate, fragmentary girl, maybe?

I’ve never been very good at leaving things behind. I tried, but I have always left fragments of myself there too, like seeds awaiting their chance to grow.

Realize you can be happy this moment for no reason. Otherwise, you eternally depend on conditions for happiness (and) you remain a victim of circumstances.

Owning your own feelings, rather than blaming them on someone else, is the mark of a person who has moved from contracted to expanded awareness.

You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens.

The only thing I know is this: I am full of wounds and still standing on my feet.