Growth is painful. Change is painful. But nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don't belong
You can find your identity in the damage that's been done to you. You find your identity in your wounds, in your scars, in the places where you've been beat up and you turn them into a medal. We all wear the things we've survived with some honor, but the real honor is in also transcending them.
It has been said that time heals all wounds. I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue, and the pain lessens, but it is never gone.
The truth is everybody changes every day, and some things are more devastating than others, but we never are the same. And there are two ways to deal with these changes, you either accept them, or you fight them like hell all the way.
Sincere forgiveness isn't colored with expectations that the other person apologize or change. Don't worry whether or not they finally understand you. Love them and release them. Life feeds back truth to people in its own way and time—just like it does for you and me.
It's not who you are that holds you back, it's who you think you're not.
The individual is the human who is all mankind. The whole history of man is written in ourselves
Always move towards pain when making art.
Whatever has happened to you in your past has no power over this present moment, because life is now.
I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.