1. “To love and be loved. that is the meaning of life.”
2. “Don’t surrender all your joy for an idea you used to have about yourself that isn’t true anymore.”
3. “Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves…”
4. “Trusting yourself means living out what you already know to be true.”
5. “Alone had always felt like an actual place to me.”
6. “Be about ten times more magnanimous than you believe yourself capable of. Your life will be a hundred times better for it.”
7. “You get to define the terms of your life.”
8. “Be brave enough to break your own heart.”
9. “In my perception, the world wasn’t a graph or formula or an equation. It was a story.”
10. “Reading’s my reward at the end of the day.”
11. “Accept that someday what pains you now will surely pain you less.”
12. “There are some things you can’t understand yet. Your life will be a great and continuous unfolding.”
13. “Grief doesn’t have a face.”
14. “Bravery is acknowledging your fear and doing it anyway.”
15. “At a certain point we get to decide who it is we allow to influence us.”
16. “Writing is part intuition and part trial and error, but mostly it’s very hard work.”
17. “I’ve learned so much as both a writer and a human.”
18. “Work hard. Do good. Be incredible!”
19. “Real love moves freely in both directions. Don’t waste your time on anything else.”
20. “The only way out of a hole is to climb out.”
21. “I write to find what I have to say. I edit to figure out how to say it right.”
22. “You will come to know things that can only be known with the wisdom of age and the grace of years. Most of those things will have to do with forgiveness.”
23. “I had problems a therapist couldn’t solve; grief that no man in a room could ameliorate.”
24. “I could go back in the direction I had come from, or I could go forward in the direction I intended to go.”
25. “The people who don’t give up are the people who find a way to believe in abundance rather than scarcity.”
26. “I felt something growing in me that was strong and real.”
27. “Art isn’t anecdote. It’s the consciousness we bring to bear in our lives.”
28. “There isn’t a thing to eat down there in the rabbit hole of your bitterness except your own desperate heart.”
29. “Acceptance is a small quiet room.”
30. “Jump high and hard with intention and heart.”
