"When life is sweet, say thank you and celebrate. And when life is bitter, say thank you and grow."

"I hate this feeling. Like I’m here, but I’m not. Like someone cares. But they don’t. Like I belong somewhere else, anywhere but here."

"Get involved. You don’t want to look back on your life and realize that you successfully managed to stay out of it."

"It´s natural to want someone you love to do what you want, or what you think would be good for them, but you have to let everything happen to them. You can’t interfere with people you love any more than you’re supposed to interfere with people you don’t even know. And that’s hard …because you often feel like interfering - you want to be the one who makes the plans."