The only real battle in life is between hanging on and letting go.

You think you can avoid [pain,] but you actually can't. If you do, you just get sicker, or you feel more pain. But if you can speak it, if you can write it, if you can paint it, it is very healing.

I have found that it's not so much how you start, but how you finish that counts." -Declan

Every small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.

When someone you love says goodbye you can stare long and hard at the door they closed and forget to see all the doors God has open in front of you.

I had to start new, my ego told me that if past ever wanted me, I won't be calling it by that name.