"No, seriously, today really is the first day of the rest of your life!"

Do not let other's perception of you define who you are.  

I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.
Audre Lorde

Even in my saddness I can be happy to be; I can be happy to be sad; I can be happy to be.

"I am not this body. I am in this body, and this is part of my incarnation and I honor it but that isn't who I am." Ram Dass, in a conversaton on Experience