For most of life, nothing wonderful happens.  If you don't enjoy getting up and working and finishing your work and sitting down to a meal with family or friends, then the chances are that you're not going to be very happy.  If someone bases his happiness or unhappiness on major events like a great new job, huge amounts of money, a flawlessly happy marriage or a trip to Paris, that person isn't going to be happy much of the time.  If, on the other hand, happiness depends on a good breakfast, flowers in the yard, a drink or a nap, then we are more likely to live with quite a bit of happiness.

There is no virtue in tolerating toxic behavior. 

I was thinking about the finality of it all - how somebody can leave your world in the blink of an eye and be gone forever.  It's too enormous to think about.  It's too hard  And then you're just supposed to go one, right, like just deal with it.  I mean, really, you're only supposed to be sad for as long as the flowers last and then, oh, time to go back to telling jokes and reminiscing about the old days.

Forgiveness is never easy.  Bitterness is easy.  Hatred is easy.  But forgiveness, that's a tough one.  Sometimes, people say things they don't mean or do things they can't take back.  So we feed ourselves to starve the pain.

Our lives are difficult.  Our losses are great sometimes.  So grieve.  Struggle.  Find your way back on your own terms and in your own way.

Happiness is a mood and it's a condition, not a destination.  It's like being tired or hungry - it's not permanent, it comes and goes and that's okay.  And, I feel like if people thought of it that way they'd find happiness a lot more often.

No one can make your feel inferior without your consent.

If you're looking for that one person who can change your life, look in the mirror.

You gotta believe that there's people that really just want the best for you.

It's almost like I've learned to become my own best friend and not trust anyone.  And that's not healthy.  It's bad.

They teach you that the truth is good, and then when you say the truth, everybody gets offended.

Everyone judges people.  It's ones natural reaction.  There's no denying it.  It's whether you act on those judgements that defines the person you are.

Always behave like a duck.  Keep calm and unruffled on the surface, but paddle like crazy underwater.

Because when something happens, he's the person I want to tell.  The most basic indicator of love.

Learn the difference between quitting and accepting an ending.

Because when you betray the people you love, when you make them see the worst parts of you, what you've done changes everything.  There's no going back.  You've shattered the bonds you've worked so hard to forge.  And the stronger those bonds once were, the more difficult they are to put back together.  If they can be repaired at all. - Once Upon A Time

I think the easiest way to loose something is to want it too badly.

No matter how long you've traveled in the wrong direction, you can always turn around.

I think we spend too much time wondering why we're not good enough - we spend too much time over-analyzing, over thinking and overreacting.  We wast too much time putting ourselves down, so much that we never stop to see that, well, we are good enough.  You are good enough.  We spend too much time with out heads down and our hearts closed; and never get a chance to look up from the ground and see that the sun is shining and tomorrow is another day.

And a mistake repeated more than once is a decision.

I'm different.  I'm difficult.  Awkward, real.  You may get me or you may not.  I hope you do.  I don't care if you don't.

You can either roll over and die or you can keep fighting, no matter what. - Dean Winchester

Confidence isn't walking into a room with your nose in the air, and thinking you are better than everyone else.  It's walking into a room and not having to compare yourself to anyone else in the first place.

Perfectionism is self abuse of the highest order.

Everything in life is temporary, because everything changes.  That's why it takes great courage to love knowing it might end anytime but having the faith it will last forever.

Don't tie your heart to a person who has nothing to offer you.  Let it go.  It might hurt for awhile but when you get over it, you'll see it's better.

Admit when you're wrong.  Shut up when you're right.

Some people are hurting so bad you have to do more than preach a message to them.  You have to be a message to them.

You may not see it today or tomorrow, but you will look back in a few years and be absolutely perplexed and awed by how every little thing added up and brought you somewhere wonderful - or where you always wanted to be.  You will be grateful that things didn't work out the way you once wanted them to.

There's a fine line between genius and crazy.  I like to use that line as a jump rope.

Dieting is easy.  It's like riding a bike.  And the bike is on fire.  And the ground is on fire.  And everything is on fire.  Because you're in hell.

Every day I get to work with the best intentions and the right attitude, then, idiots happen....

If they don't know you personally, don't take it personal.

Smile.  Your mood will soon catch up.

Love and kindness are never wasted.  They always make a difference.  They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.

And things, as things do, changed.

I have decided to stick with love.  Hate is too great a burden to bear. - Martin Luther King Jr.