The Sunflower

Chocolate is God's apology for brocolli

Love is never convenient-and rarely painless

Feelings can be like wild animals-we underrate how fierce they are until we've opened their cage

We carry around in our heads these pictures of what our lives are supposed to look like, painted by the brush of out intentions. It's the great, deep secret of humanity that in the end none of our lives look the way we thought they would. As much as we wish to believe otherwise, most of life is a reaction to circumstances.

We spend our life building higher fences and stronger locks, when the gravest dangers are already inside

I don't want to go to Peru." How do you know? You've never been there." I've never been to hell either and I'm pretty sure I don't want to go there.

such fickle days of love when pain and ecstasy share the same hour

The surest way to minimize your own burdens is to carry someone else's.

As much as I have schemed and planned to the contrary, the most central experinces of my life have all been accidents.