Ten Things That I Have Learned

1. Every single person wants to be heard. Not one of us finds validation unnecessary. Listen and you will be heard.

2. Nothing worth having comes easy.

3. The only true failure is the person that doesn't try.

4. There is no such thing as luck...luck is nothing more than many, many, many years of trying, failing and refusing to give up.

5. You are never alone. Never.

6. What you get out of life, is what you put into it.

7. Art suppressed or ignored, is the greatest travesty in life.

8. You and you alone are responsible for your life. Excuses are only acceptable in kindergarten.

9. No one is given a dream without also being given the power to make that dream come true.

10. There is no power greater, more exhausting, more important, more worth it than love.