By judging others, you make yourself easy to judge.

If you’re going to do something, strive to do it better than anyone else. Do it all the way. If you’re going to half-ass it, why bother?

Everyone lies to themselves, but many people do it with good intentions. They want to believe what they tell themselves, it is oftentimes the best possible version of reality for them. Although it may not be accurate, it is a mural of their desires, aspirations, optimism and passion. These people usually either need time or...

How much of what is there do you allow yourself to see?

What you should actually be trying to figure out is how to tell your story. The one that is every bit as unique to you as your fingerprints.This is the truly amazing feat because you are literally the only person capable of doing that. Only you know all the parts to your story and only...

The only thing that feels worse than being stuck in a situation that makes you unhappy is realizing that you are not ready or willing to change whatever it is.

It’s so hard to find the place somewhere in the middle of the best and worst I’ve felt.

Drugs don’t really fix anything, except for everything.

When you want to share something with another person more than anything, it is one of the most difficult things to realize that you can never have it. Accepting this realization is even more difficult. Loving someone does mean saying goodbye to them in some cases, though we will fight that until the oftentimes bitter...

Anything that lights your world leaves it dark once it’s gone.

You have to believe what you’re saying if you’re going to convince me. I just can’t break that rule, even if I want to.

I believe in energies. Good energy has served me well. Being fair with others, compassionate towards them, remaining humble, and making a difference to someone are just a few of the things that I have seen create good energy. Beautiful things. Human things. I do my best to surround myself with these types of things,...

The fact of the matter is that you should really stop concerning yourself with writing a book because anyone can write a book that totally sucks. There is nothing special about that.

It may be a man’s world, but men are easily controlled by women.

Just remember that those who feel profoundly depressed are those whose happiness is likewise intense. What’s so wrong with that?

Drugs suck more than anything else I have ever liked so much.

You know all that sympathy that you feel for an abused child who suffers without a good mom or dad to love and care for them? Well, they don’t stay children forever. No one magically becomes an adult the day they turn eighteen. Some people grow up sooner, many grow up later. Some never really...

The easiest way to gain someone’s trust is to deserve it. This should be pretty easy, assuming you’re just being you and being real. Minimal effort too.

You cannot force things apart that are bound at the heart.

All we know is what we’re told.

Hope is a Heaven to keep you out of Hell. It’s hard work believing that it’s there.

I don’t think I’ve ever dared to write down what I see in the ruins of me, or tell in any detail the scars and all their secrets.

I’m not crying out for help, but I am sharing my experience in the hopes that readers will get something out of it. I’m not the one who gets to decide what that is, if anything. I’m just starting the “journey” if you will, so I can’t possibly know yet what the “message” of my...

It’s always almost Autumn, down here at Rock Bottom.

Don’t kid yourself by saying that one time can’t make you addicted. It can. I believed it couldn’t too when I first tried meth. I was so, so wrong. The worst part about it is that you won’t realize what has happened immediately afterwards. Addiction is a gradual process and it doesn’t happen overnight. But...

The end of a relationship is not always a failure. Sometimes all the love in the world is not enough to save something. In these cases, it is not a matter of fault from either person. Some things cannot be, it’s as simple as that.

The only unique contribution you can offer the world is to be who you actually are and no one else.

A selfless act out of even the purest desire to do for others, will be selfish in the satisfaction and happiness it brings to one doing it.

It’s okay to disagree with the thoughts or opinions expressed by other people. That doesn’t give you the right to deny any sense they might make. Nor does it give you a right to accuse someone of poorly expressing their beliefs just because you don’t like what they are saying. Learn to recognize good writing...

Some people like living in black and white worlds. Let them stay there. Appreciate all the colors you see in your world though.

Even if you think you’re doing well and have it all figured out, there is a voice you will always inevitably hear at some point which nags at you and says “but wait…” Don’t ever dismiss it, listen to what it has to say. Life will never be close enough to perfect, and listening to...

I think it’s better to be comfortable in your skin than to be miserable being who you are. Sure, the meth is horrible. It ruins people from the inside out. It’s a waiting game — it’s not a matter of if it destroys you, but rather a matter of when it will. I’ve made it...

If you love yourself the most at your happiest moments, there is no reason not to be fond of who you are in the dark.

Your whole life and the story of your journey is the landscape picture on the front of the box of a 1,000 piece puzzle. The pieces are each a small sticky note that ends in mid-sentence. You simply need to figure out where each one starts and ends.

The more fucked up you are, the more I like you. As long as you’ve managed to hold onto your identity through all the shit, then it won’t matter how twisted you are. I will love you more for it.

Dogs are how people would be if the important stuff is all that mattered to us.

There is nothing wrong with revenge. The wrong has already been done, or there would be no need to even the score.

I say fuck the old advice ‘show, don’t tell.’ It’s called story TELLING for a reason, and I’ll stick to it!

Money is necessary in everyone’s life. Why? Only because people have decided that it should be. It didn’t have to be the way that it has become. If nothing came at the price of money, it wouldn’t need to exist.

I think there were times when I was so afraid of losing you that I forgot I even had you at all.

Trees lose their leaves in blizzards like these.

It might be depressing, but it’s also the truth that no one has the power, the money, or the resources to save everyone on the planet from going hungry, living in poverty or allowed basic human rights. But consider the other side of this: there are people in this world who truly WOULD do all...

To be full of yourself is to make a fool of yourself.

People accuse me of falling in love easily. It just means that I’m able to see the beauty in most of the people who cross paths with me and I appreciate it for what it is and also for what it isn’t. Love is imperfect. Falling for someone’s flaws is just as necessary as falling...

Everyone has a unique problem of their own, an issue that follows them throughout life and never goes away. You discover it early and go on to struggle with it for the rest of your life, almost until it eventually becomes an old enemy that you lose the will to fight or hate anymore. And...

Two wrongs don’t make a right, but neither does one. Revenge may seem petty by day, but on some nights she becomes Justice.

Experience is the opposite of education.

Nothing in the tangible word that isn’t living has any value beyond a dollar amount. Considering that dollars can only buy more tangible and inanimate objects, it would seem a far more worthwhile goal to instead learn to place value on the treasures of the mind. Memories, knowledge and skill together are the only things...

A lot of people who find out about the things I do immediately figure I’m just a pathetic “druggie” with nothing to say that is worth hearing. They talk endless bull shit of “recovery!” They make it sound like some amazing discovery…don’t they know I’m far too busy trying to recover me?

It’s hardly ever that I am hurt by something in only one dimension.