"What really has helped me through my own breakups has been learning tools to self-soothe, reframe, and forgive, and how to channel negative energy into positive. Resilience is a muscle. Learning how to cope and process painful emotions is a muscle. And I've been through enough ups and downs to know that you have a choice. You can use breakups, which are pivotal points in life, as a catalyst for growth, or you can choose to have it make you jaded and more fear-based."

“Is it not love that knows how to make smooth things rough and rough things smooth?”

“Burning one hectare of grassland gives off more, and more damaging, pollutants than 6,000 cars. And we are burning in Africa, every single year, more than one billion hectares.”

“I am as I am. The world is as it is. Whether I am content with that has very little to do with it.”

“When the mind is exhausted of images, it invents its own.”

Source : Gary Snyder (1969). “Earth House Hold”, p.10, New Directions Publishing

“Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you.”

“Everything was going for me, I didn't even know the meaning of the word insecurity and suddenly I am surrounded by words like operation, cancer, chemotherapy, radiation.”

Source : "'I'm fit and strong now. I feel blessed'". Interview with Alastair Campbell, www.theguardian.com. April 29, 2007.

“Pain or love or danger makes you real again....”

“Rhetoric and dialectics can't change what I have learned from observation and experience.”

Source : "As I See it: The Autobiography of J. Paul Getty". Book by Jean Paul Getty, Getty Publications, p. 106, 2003.