"I'm always sad."

"Are there certain thoughts associated with sadness?"

"No, the sadness is under the thoughts. It's like when you're on a camping trip, and it's really cold, and you put on extra socks, and an extra sweater, but you still can't get warm, because the coldness is in your bones".

"Do you hope to get away from it?"

"Not anymore. I just hope to come to peace with it."

Smile with Love

Let us always meet each other with smile, for smile is the beginning of love. 

 - Mother Teresa - 

Different in person

A tulip doesn’t strive to impress anyone.
It doesn’t struggle to be different than a rose. 

It doesn’t have to. 

It is different. 

And there’s room in the garden for every flower.

- Marianne Williamson -

On Being Influential

You don't have to be a "person of influence" to be influential. In fact, the most influential people in my life are probably not even aware of the things they've taught me.
- Scott Adams -

Faraway from home

Why do you go away? 

So that you can come back. 

So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. 

And the people there see you differently, too. 

Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving. 

- Terry Pratchett, from "A Hat Full of Sky" -

To New York with Love

Even if it ain’t all it seems, 

I got a pocketful of dreams
Baby, I'm from New York
Concrete jungle where dreams are made of
There's nothing you can't do

Standing out

Why are you trying so hard to fit in when you were to born to stand out?
- Oprah Winfrey -