This morning I saw her lipstick on a coffee cup and felt like I had never known a bruise.
I keep waiting to get high on life. I keep waiting to wake up in a field remembering I spent the whole night snorting the lines the planes left in the sky, my bloodstream full of honeymoons.
I decided I was too soft to last, and then I decided to be softer.
Regret is a time machine to the past. Worry is a time machine to the future. Gratitude is a time machine to the present.
YOU ARE NOT WEAK JUST BECAUSE YOUR HEART FEELS SO HEAVY
Commit to loving yourself completely. It's the most radical thing you will do in our lifetime.
EVEN WHEN THE TRUTH ISN’T HOPEFUL, THE TELLING OF IT IS.
I had the youngest soul in the universe. I was so brand new I thought reincarnation was a flower I would wear on my wrist
I say, I don’t believe in good people. I believe in people who are committed to knowing their own wounds intimately.
SHE’S NOT ASKING WHAT YOU’RE GONNA TELL YOUR DAUGHTER. SHE’S ASKING WHAT YOU’RE GONNA TEACH YOUR SON.
One day you will know why I read the poetry of your grief to those waiting to be born, and they are all the more excited
Too much lives in a moment to not feed it to the fire in the heart, slow.
If we never deny the inevitable end of the story, we will write it more beautiful while we’re alive.
,Do we really believe our need for Prozac has nothing t do with Fallujah, with Kabul, with the Mexican border, with the thousands of U.S. school kids bleeding budget cuts that will never heal to fuel war tanks?
Ever feel like the best of you is something you're still hoping to grow into?