"We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It's a death trap."

 

"Confronting our feelings and giving them appropriate expression always takes strength, not weakness. It takes strength to acknowledge our anger, and sometimes more strength yet to curb the aggressive urges anger may bring and to channel them into nonviolent outlets. It takes strength to face our sadness and to grieve and to let our grief and our anger flow in tears when they need to. It takes strength to talk about our feelings and to reach out for help and comfort when we need it."

 

"Knowledge alone will not save you, you must act upon that knowledge. A smoker will not attain better health just knowing smoking is bad for him if he is not determined enough to stop."

 

"If you don't believe in eternity then what you do here doesn't matter."

 

"At the end of the day we can endure much more than we think we can."

 

"As you walk and eat and travel, be where you are. Otherwise you will miss most of your life."

 

"You have to spend an enormous amount of time doing something to get really good at it. This is 90% of what separates the artist from the imposter. Talent, education, luck, finances, and all the rest add up to a small part. There are no excuses, the ones who are willing to do the work will find a way - and the ones who aren't never will, no matter how many opportunities come their way."

 

"I think it's very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person."

 

"The most dangerous sicknesses are those that make us believe we are well."

 

"They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself."

 

"True beauty comes from the inside, so step aside from the scale and create your own beauty."

 

"Do not wait until the conditions are perfect to begin. Beginning makes the conditions perfect."

 

"Worry pretends to be necessary but serves no useful purpose."

 

"Don't let the sadness of your past and the fear of your future ruin the happiness of your present."

 

"The only one who's really judging you is yourself."

 

"The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too."

"Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present."

 

"Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will. But then again, if you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all."

 

"Be happy for no reason, like a child. If you are happy for a reason, you're in big trouble, because that reason can be taken from you."

 

"So build yourself as beautiful as you want your world to be. Wrap yourself in light then give yourself away with your heart, your brush, your march, your art, your poetry, your play. And for every day you paint the war, take a week and paint the beauty, the color, the shape of the landscape you're marching towards. Everyone knows what you're against; show them what you're for."