I will never have greater respect than for the man that realizes he was wrong and graciously admits it without a single excuse.

At the border of where I will literally not survive so long as I keep living in so much fear of the harsh judgments of others, I am finally conceding the truth to you all.I...

Certain girls deserve lots of flowers. You are one of them.

I have known a lot of people in my life, and I can tell you this… Some of the ones who understood love better than anyone else were those who the rest of the world...

I’m not going to miss 95% of life to weigh 5% less.

The easiest way to disarm a bully or a jerk is to take any insult he throws at you and follow it with, ‘I know, and isn’t it fabulous?!

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.

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...

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.

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.