"only hope can keep me together
love can mend your life but love can break your heart"
--Message in a Bottle, The Police

I'm selfish, impatient, and insecure. I make mistakes. I am out of control, and at times hard to handle, but if you can't handle me at my worst, then you don't deserve me at my best.

I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you can appreciate them when they're right, you believe less so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.

"In the process of learning another culture, you learn just as much about yourself and how you are a part of your culture."

"Hearts may break, but hearts are the toughest of muscles, able to pump for a lifetime, seventy times a minute, and scarcely falter along the way. Even dreams, the most delicate and intangible of things, can prove remarkably difficult to kill."

In the end, we only regret the chances we didn't take, the relationships we were afraid to have, and the decisions we waited too long to make.

"It's no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society."