“Happiness is a feeling/emotion, but Joy is state of ‘being’. One does not depend on your external circumstances, the other does.”

“Logic would say, ‘pay it no mind’. Yet the heart would say, ‘to pay it no mind would be to pay too much’.”

“Colors move my emotions around as if they were driving a taxi, and I was merely a passenger.”

“Feelings can be real but fickle…When we speak based on facts, not on our feelings alone, we temper and restrict our comments before hitting send…[G]ood communicators confirm their feelings with facts.”

“No one is immune to love.”

“If you don’t love me, is it okay if I love you?”

“All feelings are fleeting.”

“Peace; how unassuming you are. Yet, you are king of all the feelings.”

“There is so much wisdom around you, be wise follow none.”

“I’ve come to the point where I never feel the need to stop and evaluate whether or not I am happy. I’m just ‘being’, and without question, by default, it works.”

“Meeting a stranger can be totally fleeting and meaningless, for example, unless you enter the individual’s world by finding out at least one thing that is meaningful to his or her life and exchange at lest one genuine feeling. Tuning in to others is a circular flow: you send yourself out toward people; you receive them as they respond to you.”

“His gut was stitched up good and tight, but that didn’t prevent it from flopping. He wiped his damp palms on the legs of his jeans and stood up shakily, leaning heavily on his cane.He called himself a masochist for putting himself through this torture day after day.He braced himself for the disappointment of having to go home alone.He braced himself for happiness like he’d never known in his entire life.He watched the door they would come through.”