feminine” just because they have their own likes and opinions on things? Things that really don’t matter?

Parenting is the greatest pay it forward system on earth. We don’t owe our parents anything. We owe our children everything. The same was true for our parents. The same will be true for our...

I made a big mistake, and I didn’t use it to make my life better. I used it to be okay with a life less lived. I used it to be okay with mediocrity and...

I will never grow thick skin so that you don’t have to feel bad about being a jerk to me.

You’d be hard-pressed to find an old person who would trade in a true friend for any amount of popularity or fame. You’d also be hard-pressed to find a young person who wouldn’t.

Our greatest mistakes, if we look at them, and digest them, and interact with them, and learn from them… they can be the greatest moments of our lives.

People usually live up to their expectations. The kid picked first for dodgeball feels a duty to be the best, and to perform the best, and to be better than anyone else. They feel a...

If only I could change the world around me, perhaps my truth won’t one day be the end of me.

trailer trash,” those living in poverty, or the illegal immigrants. They didn’t tell us it was okay to love everybody except for our ex-lovers, our lovers’ ex lovers, or our ex-lovers’ lovers. The mandate was...

If you don’t want your past to own you, try owning your past.

Nobody on Earth can tell you how you should live your life. Nobody with any real authority anyway.

The next time you want to withhold your help, or your love, or your support for another for whatever the reason, ask yourself a simple question: do the reasons you want to withhold it reflect...

Children are gifts. They are not ours for the breaking. They are ours for the making.

Fishing is much less about the fishing, and much more about the time alone with your kid, away from the hustle and bustle of the everyday.

Be real. Embrace that you have weakness. Because everyone does. Embrace that your body is not perfect. Because nobody’s is. Embrace that you have things you can’t control. We all have a list of them.

So many people hate me and love me for the exact same reasons. This is all the proof I need that my opinion about myself is the only opinion I should ever care about.

One of the greatest acts of service you can do is to find someone who is secretly lonely and be a friend to them, if only for a day.

Who do you want to surround yourself with? People who can pull you up to their level of greatness? Or people who will happily pull you down to theirs?

Those who truly want greatness must surround themselves with people even greater than they are.

Make life easier for those around you, not harder.Every person you know is fighting their own great battle. Few of us ever know what those battles entail, and so often we say and do things...

Who I am is not the same minute to minute or day to day. There are far too many variables for that to ever be true, for me, or for anyone.

Happiness comes from striving to make tomorrow better than today and being at peace when yesterday was better than today as well.

Don’t judge me for escaping the stresses and cruelty of the world differently than you do.

What would it hurt for me to give that homeless guy a couple bucks? Who the hell cares if he spends it on beer? Maybe beer is a step up for him from the harder...

Don’t we get it? To put our arm around someone who is gay, someone who has an addiction, somebody who lives a different lifestyle, someone who is not what we think they should be… doing...

Do we not see the influence we have when we say we believe in one thing, but our children see us living something else? Do we not realize how little we encourage our children to...

Smile at people everywhere you go. Don’t just give them one of those half-smirk/head nod things. Raise your eyebrows, show those teeth, and chuckle while you smile. Next time you’re at the store, give a...

You want to be popular? It’s easy to do. Just be a total weirdo and love yourself for it.

I’m not going to pretend I’m something I’m not so that you like me more.

I’ve watched my dad move our family from extreme poverty to extreme wealth and then everywhere in between. Never once did I see or hear him be anything but a cheerleader for the accomplishments of...

I will one day accept death with gratitude if I meet it having lived a life that became truly my own.

For twenty-one years, I have been paralyzed by the fear of what this society will do with me if they ever were to know of the thoughts that I continually push away. For more than...

Think of the most discouraging thing that you are currently carrying or the biggest project you can’t seem to tackle. Forget about how it happened, forget about how you got there, just look at the...

I am just a guy, doing my best to be the best person I can be.And, every once in a while, I fuck up the moment I’m in.Please. Get over it. Get over yourselves. Get...

I’m not saying you are jealous or insecure. I’m just saying that you obsessing over another person’s accomplishments makes you look that way.

most ridiculous thing they ever could have done”? Do you really believe that your child is an idiot? Because she now does. Think about that. Because you said it, she now believes it. Bravo.

Dads. Do you honestly expect anybody to believe that you can’t find 20 minutes to step away from your computer or turn off the television to play with your child? It has to happen every...

When you do talk to people, share what you are. Stop focusing on all the things that you aren’t. Stop focusing on all of the physical features that you think people won’t like about you....

One of the greatest tragedies I can think of is for a person to die having never fully questioned the life he was born into.

If your dreams and goals get derailed, they’re not dead. Derailed simply means off-track. Pick ’em up and put ’em back on again.

before the number changes”.

The most difficult part of dating as a single parent is deciding how much risk your own child’s heart is worth.

I am not where I am because of luck. I am where I am because I took risks others weren’t willing to take. The world rewards the risk takers. It always has. It always will.

Improvement is always on the schedule for tomorrow. Change is always taking place some time in the future. It’s human nature.

If bullies actually believe that somebody loves them and believes in them, they will love themselves, they will become better people, and many will even become saviors to the bullied.

Be a little less obsessed with how I live my life and a little more obsessed with how you live your own.

Dads. It’s time to tell our kids that we love them. Constantly. It’s time to show our kids that we love them. Constantly. It’s time to take joy in their twenty-thousand daily questions and their...

And if you are a mom who has watched your child’s father leave, my heart goes out to you. I also pray that you had no part in it. I pray that you didn’t make...

So you were talking crap about me? Hm. I missed it. I was too busy being fabulous.

I do not see the point in dressing and acting and speaking in a way that makes you feel more comfortable and me feel less comfortable.