We are the source of our problems not mysterious sinister foreigners overseas.
A man who can take anything will find most things unsatisfying. And a man without memories is just a shell.
When someone is in your heart, they're never truly gone. They can come back to you, even at unlikely times.
We need to forgive ourselves. For all the things we didn't do. All the things we should have done. You can't get stuck on the regrets of what should have happened.
Have you found someone to share your heart with? Are you giving to your community? Are you at peace with yourself? Are you trying to be as human as you can be?
Parents rarely let go of their children, so children let go of them. They move on. They move away. The moments that used to define them - a mother's approval, a father's nod - are covered by moments of their own accomplishments. It is not until much later, as the skin sags and the heart weakens, that children understand; their stories, and all their accomplishments, sit atop the stories of their mothers and fathers, stones upon stones, beneath the waters of their lives.
Lost love is still love. It takes a different form, that's all. You can't see their smile or bring them food or tousle their hair or move them around a dance floor. But when those senses weaken another heightens. Memory. Memory becomes your partner. You nurture it. You hold it. You dance with it.
There are six mental faculties that we have, and how we use them sets the course for our life.
I keep having these bros come up to me and say, "I used to watch you when I was a fetus," and I just want to kill them.
I know everything should be photographed. It helps me make sense of my existence.
To me, seeing a really great comedian is a bit like watching a musician or a poet.