"As you get older, you really start to understand more about why people drink the night away, smoke their lungs black, or throw themselves off buildings."

"Have no fear of perfection - you’ll never reach it."

"Unhappiness can be like a virus spreading from one person, to the next person, to the next one and so on. When someone is mean or rude to you, do not let their unhappiness infect your own life. If you are the unhappy one, please quarantine yourself so you do not infect others!"

"Whatever you do, don’t get stuck on the one thing that ruins your day. Smile and be grateful. Life is too short to waste on negativity."

"But at some point you have to stop being so angry, you have to stop being so sad, you have to stop killing yourself and start being gentle with yourself. At some point you have to just let it all go and be happy, you have to spread love instead of being afraid of it. You have to love yourself and everyone around you before its too late. Don’t waste away being unhappy over trivial things dear. Don’t do it. Don’t do it to yourself and don’t let other people do it to you."

"A ship is safe in harbor, but that’s not what ships are for."

"The opinion of others about you doesn’t define who you are."

"It’s amazing how quickly things can turn around when you remove toxic people from your life."

"If you don’t love yourself, you’ll always be chasing people who don’t love you, either..!!"