Puberty is a phase... fifteen years of rejection is a lifestyle. [Stanford]

Puberty is a phase... fifteen years of rejection is a lifestyle. [Stanford]

Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes read more

Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly.

I think all great innovations are built on rejections.

I think all great innovations are built on rejections.

One often calms one's grief by recounting it.

One often calms one's grief by recounting it.

Large offers and sturdy rejections are among the most common topics of falsehood

Large offers and sturdy rejections are among the most common topics of falsehood

It's easy to cry when you realize that everyone you love will reject you or die.

It's easy to cry when you realize that everyone you love will reject you or die.

Just so you know, there's a space that only you can fill. Just so you know, I loved you then, read more

Just so you know, there's a space that only you can fill. Just so you know, I loved you then, I guess I always will.

I never asked you to earn me. I want only that you should need me. Your path is not one read more

I never asked you to earn me. I want only that you should need me. Your path is not one of merit. Bring the recurring desires of your mind to me, every time they emerge. They cannot shock me, for I willed them! Bring me your confusion, your fear, your craving, your anxiety, your inability to love the world, your hesitation to serve, your jealousy, all the deficiencies that defy your spiritual disciplines.

Sorrow is the great idealizer.

Sorrow is the great idealizer.