Good advice is hard to find and even harder to accept. Accept it anyway. One day, you’ll wake up and wish you had done it sooner.

I just didn’t understand how sometimes people hurt us not because they want to but rather because they don’t know how to do anything else.

I heard someone say one time that ’anger after five seconds is just pride.

I’d ask her, with all the seriousness a six-year-old can muster, who invented it. She said that no one “invented” school, that the government had created it as an infrastructure to help promote the education of children to become high-functioning adults and productive people. I took a little time to digest this, and then I asked her how I could get in touch with this “government” she spoke of.

People can only love you as much as they love themselves. Sometimes you have to live with that. Even when it hurts your heart, and even when it conflicts with your beliefs about what should be.

I wish there wasn't such a division between people who believe certain things and people who don't. It seems vastly hypocritical on both ends, these two groups of people both claiming to believe in good things and yet willing to do bad things to each other for disagreeing.

I heard someone say one time that 'anger after five seconds is just pride.

You are sick not weak. It is okay to be depressed.

The thing about people though, I think, is that our hearts tend to do a great job holding on to the horrible stuff and a horrible job holding on to the good. Or at least we're like that until we learn how to not be like that.