But avoidance allows you to believe that you're making all kinds of strides when you're not.
You are bigger than your circumstances.
I have just one black and white photograph left of my mother when she was younger. She was 17 when it was taken and beautiful with wispy curls and eyes that shone like dark marbles.
This fork in the road happens over a hundred times a day and it's the choices that you make that will determine the shape of your life.
There's always a way through things if you work hard enough and look close. It all depends on your level of determination.
Many nights I longed for home. But it occurred to me as I struggled for a feeling of comfort and safety: I have no idea where home is.
Success creates opportunities for other people.
My mother used to sit at the foot of my bed and she would share her dreams with me.
Like my mother I was always saying 'I'll fix my life one day.' It became clear when I saw her die without fulfilling her dreams that my time was now or maybe never.
... In our family if you said the words 'I feel ' they better be followed with 'hungry' or 'cold'. Because we didn't get personal that's just how it was.
If I want to be a loving generous giving person I'm not going to test the waters. I'm simply going to be a loving generous giving person.
Life takes on the meaning that you give it.
One point of view gives a one dimensional world.
I'd been living on the streets of New York and I was sleeping at my friends' houses sometimes in the subway.
I've learned in my life that you really don't know what's possible until you're already doing it
I feel like my life has been a series of miracles. I was in every sense a lost cause.
Life has a way of doing that; one minute everything makes sense the next things change. People get sick. Families break apart your friends could close the door on you.