Self

"Be patient. Your skin took a while to deteriorate. Give it some time to reflect a calmer inner state. As one of my friends states on his Facebook profile: "The true Losers in Life, are not those who Try and Fail, but those who Fail to Try."

"Depression weighs you down like a rock in a river. You don't stand a chance. You can fight and pray and hope you have the strength to swim, but sometimes, you have to let yourself sink. Because you'll never know true happiness until someone or something pulls you back out of that river--and you'll never believe it until you realize it was you, yourself who saved you."

"I saw my earlier selves as different people, acquaintances I had outgrown. I wondered how I could ever have been some of them."

"Write it on your heart you are the most beautiful soul of the Universe. Realize it, honor it and celebrate the life."

"Please, touch me, I pray."

"I've come to know that what we want in life is the greatest indication of who we really are."

"Non-judgment quiets the internal dialogue, and this opens once again the doorway to creativity."

"If you own this story you get to write the ending."

"If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else."

"Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form."

"I don't judge people. It blurs out the center of my attention,my focus, myself."

"You are -- your life, and nothing else."

"To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That's what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you to keep your soul - would you understand why that's much harder?"

"I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world."

"Don't think about making life better for other people who don't even deserve you, rather, focus on making your life the best, for yourself and those who love you."

"We'd start slow, the way we always did, because the run, and the game, could go on for awhile. Maybe even forever. That was the thing. You just never knew. Forever was so many different things. It was always changing, it was what everything was really all about. It was twenty minutes, or a hundred years, or just this instant, or any instant I wished would last and last. But there was only one truth about forever that really mattered, and that was this: it was happening. Right then, as I ran with Wes into that bright sun, and every moment afterwards. Look, there. Now. Now. Now."

"We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change."

"He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves."

"We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be."

"Your inner strength is your outer foundation"