Learn to tolerate your own different-ness from other people and learn to navigate your own waters.

That’s point of writing: building what you need, right?

I think that hope is the act of continuing in the face of the truth.

5′10" I seem 5′8" I seem 6′2" I seem dead.

Hope is always about the future. And it isn’t always good news. Sometimes, hope can imprison us with belief or expectation that something will happen in the future to change our lives. Similarly hopelessness isn’t always about despair. Hopelessness can bring us right into this very moment and answer all of life’s most difficult questions. Who am I? Where am I? What does this mean? And what now?

It’s a funny thing about life, I think we’re born square and we die round.

Giving to others is most precious when it is done quietly and selflessly.

There is nothing going on. I took nothing you wanted. You can’t have it back.

I was 14 and madly in love for the first time. He was 21. He made me suddenly, unaccustomedly beautiful with his kisses and mix tapes. During the year of elation and longing, he never mentioned that he had a girlfriend who lived across the street.

When you do feel shame, seek out someone who loves and accepts you for who you are, in the intimacy that exposure brings, an amazing opportunity of being loved for who we are.