“There is just as much value in the negative space. Not every second of your life has to be filled. A packed agenda is not success. Living to work as opposed to working to live is not a quality of life. Things are not split into ‘times in which you’re doing something that other people can quantify’…”Tagged: Philosophy, Psychology, The Person You'll Become
“The things we lose are not losses – they are entryways. They are second chances. They are wake up calls. They are the world saying to us clearly and sharply: there is something else out there. And when it most feels like we're standing on the edge of some unknown abyss, we must recognize that we…”Tagged: Philosophy, Poetry
“Love is supposed to change you, and it will. This is how we determine the quality of a relationship: by the person we become when we're in it. People always say the opposite – that you should never change for someone else – but with the right person, you will evolve rapidly. The right person will…”Tagged: Philosophy, Love
“Imagine what you’ll lose when you gain everything you want. You'll grow up eventually, you'll find love beyond your current comprehension, you'll do work you're proud of, you'll make money. But what of those beautiful days you got to spend alone? What did you do with the sacred hours you had to…”Tagged: Philosophy, Psychology
“We may not have been built for monogamy, but interestingly enough, it’s the one animalistic trait we aren’t always trying to transcend. We weren’t built to eat at tables or work in fluorescent-lit offices each day, we weren’t built to internalize shame or gamble or consume copious amounts of…”Tagged: Philosophy, Love
“When sunlight shines through the trees, the interplay between light and leaves. The feeling of your skin on someone else’s. People who are funny without being mean. People who are deep without being negative. The mind fuck that is 'all is as it should be.'”Tagged: Philosophy
“If you want to be happy, you need to stop chasing happiness. Happiness is a byproduct of doing things that are challenging, meaningful, beautiful and worthwhile. It is wiser to spend a life chasing knowledge, or the ability to think clearly and with more dimension, than it is to just chase what…”Tagged: Psychology, Philosophy, The Person You'll Become
“Some of the most told stories are the ones that don’t end well, the ones that are beautiful because someone laid it all on the line, was brave and vulnerable and submitted to the human condition. If that’s your story, its time to stop running from it and start taking pride in the fact that you were…”Tagged: Love, Pain, Sadness, Acceptance, Broken Heart
“If you’re meant to go from point A to point B, you will get there, eventually.”Tagged: Inspirational, Journey of Your Life, Getting To Where You're Supposed To Be
“Life is not a series of problems to be solved, it’s a journey that you should be fascinated by.”Tagged: Life, Problem Solving, Life As A Journey, Inspirational
“Your days are slipping by you, and every day you spend in the mediocre is another you miss in the extraordinary.”Tagged: Life Is Passing You By, Stop Being Mediocre, Extraordinary, Life, Being human
“The most miraculous things in our lives are the ones that change how we see things, each other and ourselves. It’s the relinquishing that hope is not lost, for there is another way that life can be.”Tagged: Miracle, Hope Is Not Lost
“Free yourself from the confines that bind you. Maybe you built steel bars around your heart because you thought they had to be there. You wanted to protect yourself from being hurt so badly again. Take them down. Walk out. This may be physical or it may be metaphorical. But either way, know that…”Tagged: Free Yourself, Liberation, Finding Truth, Fear, Avoid Fear
“If you’re meant to go from point A to point B, you will get there, eventually. But you can choose which way you go, and how you travel.”Tagged: Journey, How You Travel, You Will Get There
“Bloom where you’re planted. Be aware of the greatness that you are and realize that without you, the seaming of this mysteriously interconnected world would cease to exist as it is. Hope is never gone, it’s just ignored.”Tagged: Bloom, Growth, Greatness, Interconnected World, All One
“Whenever you feel hopeless, all you need to do is go outside and realize that you have been molded into human form for some reason.”Tagged: hopeless, Human Life, Being human, purpose
“Because if everything were explained, there would be nothing left to figure out.”Tagged: Science, Figuring Things Out, Know Everything?, Learning, Be Open
“You have to stop believing that you need other people’s permission to be okay with yourself. That however you do or don’t align with what other people value determines your worth. That however the world does or doesn’t show you kindness is a direct reflection of how much you deserve it. You have to…”Tagged: Permission, Self Worth, Your Value
“We all start as strangers, but we forget that we rarely choose who ends up a stranger too”Tagged: Stranger, Love, Memory
“When our lives revolve around someone, they don’t just stop doing so even if all that’s left is some semblance of their memory.”Tagged: Stranger, Love, Memory