“I lost myself trying to please everyone else. Now I’m losing everyone while I’m trying to find myself.”

“Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.”

“Don’t allow your wounds to transform you into someone you are not.”

“Suffering is not bad. If you understand it rightly, suffering is a cleansing. If you understand it rightly, sadness has a depth to it which no happiness can ever have. A person who is simply happy is always superficial. A person who has not known sorrow and has not known sadness, has not known the depths. He has not touched the bottom of his being; he has remained just on the periphery. One has to move within these two banks. Within these two banks flows the river.”

“My entire life can be described in one sentence: It didn’t go as planned, and that’s okay.”

“When a person can see into your soul, it’s hard. It forces you to be open. Vulnerable.”