Nobody cries at a funeral because the world will be missing out on another pretty face. They cry because the world is missing another heart, another … - Brianna Wiest

Make your life a safe haven in which only people that have the capacity to care and listen and connect are allowed.

You believe that creating your best life is a matter of deciding what you want, and then going after it, but in reality, you are psychologically incapable of being able to predict what will make you happy. Your brain can only perceive what it's known, so when you choose what you want for the future, you're actually recreating a solution or an ideal of the past. When things don't work out the way you want them to, you think you failed, only because you didn't recreate something you perceived as desirable. In reality, you likely created something better but foreign, and your brain misinterpreted it as bad because of that.

Fire can burn your house down, or it can cook you dinner each night and keep you warm in the winter. Your mind is the same way.