“Letting go is the easy part, it’s the moving on that’s painful.”

“When you're growing, you will also feel like you are dying. That is because part of you is. Nobody talks about this, but you have to grieve the loss of who you were before you can fully step into who you're going to be.”

“Failure is not the opposite of success, it is the part of success.”

“Slowly losing friends is a part of growing up.”

“I don't want to be part of a world where being kind is a weakness.”

“Every flower and insect, every bird, and all the creatures that live upon the land and swim within the rivers and seas, are part of the Tree of Life. You are connected to the whole of life. Whatever happens to the myriad forms of life in the world around you, has a direct affect on you”

“Surrounded by hordes of people, busy with all sorts of secular matters, more and more shrewd about the ways of the world - such a person forgets himself, forgets his name divinely understood, does not dare to believe in himself, finds it too risky to be himself, far easier and safer to be like the others, to become a copy, a number, part of the crowd.”