There’s just as much wisdom in knowing when to keep quiet as there is in knowing when to speak up. Use your voice wisely.
In my experience, it is always worth it to find the love that lives inside you. No matter how deep you have to dig sometimes.
Happiness is not found in a life lived for the expectations of others.Rather than seek happiness living my life to please the will of others, I will seek happiness where I know it can be found—living my life to please the will of my heart.
A happiness trick:do more things that make you happy, and you’ll be happy more often.
There is absolutely no point in comparing ourselves to others. Everyone brings to the world exactly what they are meant to bring, and in doing so touches exactly who they are meant to touch.
No one determines your truth but you.You can’t paint your own self-portrait with someone else’s hand.
I finally stopped seeking in others everything I could only find in myself.
I can’t control my feelings, but I’m learning to have a say in how much my feelings control me.
Your commitment to your happiness and well-being serves our entire world in powerful ways. Stay committed.You change our world for the better by changing your world for the better.
When some things don’t work out, other things do.Some of life’s most memorable and fun experiences happen precisely because things don’t go as planned.
Rather than seek happiness living my life to please the will of others, I will seek happiness where I know it can be found – living my life to please the will of my heart.
I’ve finally figured out a way to stand strong on my own.
One of the most empowering things about being human is the fact that a single choice can change the entire direction of our lives. What are you choosing for yourself?
I was still water, held by my surroundings.I am now a river, carving my own path.
Making someone responsible for your misery also makes them responsible for your happiness. Why give that power to anyone but yourself?
We decide how much we want our past to be a part of our present.I stopped inviting the past into my life.It took the hint and stopped showing up.
When we open ourselves up to feeling, we can’t only open ourselves up to feeling certain things. The same is true when we shut ourselves down. The walls that guard against sadness also guard against happiness.
We are powerful beyond measure,and we must stand powerfully in the face of injustice and hate.United.
How much longer until we finally figure out how to be with one another?How many times do we have to play out this pain?I’m ready for something different.Aren’t you.
You change our world for the better by changing our world for the better.
If only I could spend all my days surrounded by people brave enough to open their hearts for real.
If people aren’t able to see your magnificence that’s their loss, not yours.
Today is the perfect day to do something daring. Like just be yourself, for instance.
I can’t tell you anything about yourself you don’t already know…WAIT…unless you don’t know you’re an incredibly freaking amazing person with boundless gifts to share…then I can tell you that.
If you can’t forget about all the great pains you’ve endured, as many of us can’t, at least take some time to celebrate the fact that you’ve somehow kept going, in spite of it all. And you’ve certainly kept growing, because of it all.
Don’t let the lies that darken our world keep you from living within your truth.
We all get in a funk sometimes.It doesn’t mean you’re failing, or ungrateful, or stupid, or lost. It means you’re human.The Funk happens. For all of us. We can’t be happy all the time. We don’t need to be.
He lifted himself out of the darkness of his fears, into a bright new world of possibility.
beneath the pain of your fears, wild and ready, lives your truth, the essence of your singular beauty, hoping, waiting for you to set it free.
He knew his words could not convey the impossible love he felt for her, so he held her stare and hoped (prayed!) she would understand the immensity of it all.
She shot out of her seat, tired of waiting, at last ready to create her future.
It’s important to work on our personal growth, and part of that work is learning, and accepting the fact that we are absolutely enough, as we are. Some of our most profound changes manifest by simply embracing who we’ve been all along.
A great giftwe can giveto ourselvesis a willingnessto love everyone,no matter what.This frees us completely from the toxicjustificationswe use to hate.
A change of attitude changes everything.A bad attitude never leads to a good life.
I am learning to accept everything about myself,even the part of me that struggles to accept everything about myself.
Become more committed to seeing what’s right about you than you are to seeing what’s wrong, and soon you’ll start to feel a lot different about yourself.
You know the doubts. You are good enough. You are important. You are worthy. You are kind. You are all you need to be. You are love.
If you’ve given your all, and it’s still not working, it’s likely time to move on.
When our desire for truth outweighs our fear of change, we make choices that serve an open heart rather than a closed mind.
you are a person, not a shredder.so quit tearing yourself to shreds.
No one else can stop us from loving ourselves, just as no one else is to blame when we don’t. I promise to stop blaming your for everything I don’t like about myself.
I don’t wish for more time. I wish for more courage to live freely right now.
It’s amazing to consider just how many people smile at the thought of you.
i’m afraid i’ll lose you if i share all that’s real.i’m afraid i’ll lose myself if i don’t.
Isn’t it time to start giving yourself the great gift of your own love?
You can’t do everything for everyone, not even for yourself. It’s okay to ask for help when you need it.
My fear whispered to me, I am just trying to protect you.I whispered back, I know, but I’m stronger than you think.
Why not to choose to believe in yourself, just to see what happens?
Thank you for being such a beautiful friend. I am in awe of you.
Um, enough apologies, okay?Just get on with being your badass self.
I’m trusting that the pain of letting go will be eclipsed by the relief of moving on.
I had to break to pieces, so I could reassemble even stronger.
Listen to me, you’ve got this. Seriously, you’ve got this.
Option A:Spend your life trying to get others to accept you.Option B:Accept yourself, and spend your life with others who recognize what a beauty you are.
Compassion grows in the recognition that we are all the same.If you can’t see some part of yourself in every single person you encounter, then you’re not looking closely enough, at the person or at yourself.
We are here to love. Everything else is distraction.
Maybe you’re not breaking down.Maybe you’re breaking through.
You are not your mind. You don’t have to believe the lies it tells you about yourself.
With each day that passes, it becomes more and more clear that the most true way to make it through this life is with the deepest possible commitment to compassion and a relentless dedication to love.
I’ve come to understand that life is a constant letting go.
beyond the hurtbeyond the angerbeyond the blamebeyond the judgmentbeyond the expectationbeyond all of the noisethere is just love.If you stop before you’ve made your way to love, then you haven’t gone far enough.
Hey, Beautiful…There is room for all that you are and everything you have to offer our world.Share yourself.
There is so much we’ll likely never agree on, but can we at least agree to be respectful and kind to each other anyway.
Wait. Take your foot off the pedal. Instead, let your creativity drive you.
The most important thing in life is actually pretty simpleJust love, beyond every instinct there is not toThings will happen then. Good things
Yes, I’m a fan of living some part of each day with my head in the clouds.
The most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen I’m likely to see again and again in countless forms. Ah, thank you life.
I love when my mind focuses on how wonderful I am and lets all the other (less generous) thoughts recede into the background. You’re wonderful too, by the way. Way wonderful.
Now is the perfect time to start making those changes you know you need to make.
We have to figure out a kinder way to connect with each other, and practice at it every day. Make it a think we love to do. One of our favorite things, in fact. Until it becomes our only way of being.
Trust and be patient. You are making it happen, in your own way, it its own time.
a wish… that we may, each of us, with utter regularity, melt into the truth of our inescapable beauty.
It’s not enough to open your eyes. You must open your heart as well.
A little creativity can make something ordinary, extraordinary, and something extraordinary that much more so.
No matter what’s going on, I keep coming back to the one intention that makes the most sense:Just love.
It is love, has been love, will always be love that makes the biggest difference in our world.
We’re not on the same page right now, but that’s okay. Were still in the same story, and there’s still so much more to be written. I won’t put down my pen if you won’t.
My mind loves you so much it wants to own you. My heart loves you so much it wants to set you free.
I will love you through everything. Can you do yourself the same honor?
We have to be willing to acknowledge the good, or all we bring is bitterness to the bad, and that doesn’t help make things any better.
We loved each other.We hurt each other.We left each other.Now we hate each other.Let’s not stop there.Let’s finally forgive each other.
Will you ever stop needing to be right?Will I ever stop needing you to be?
Forgiveness and Blame share an apartment, but not for long, because Blame can’t live with Forgiveness, and Forgiveness can’t live with Blame.
I’ve found a new kind of home in us, and I’m ready to move in for good.
I do love you, but I can no longer wait for you to figure out how to love me in a way that makes us both feel good.
I love you, and I know you love me too.I’m just not sure that’s enough anymore.Don’t we both deserve more than this struggle?
Life changes completely when Love comes first.I don’t need to know you to love you. I’ll start by loving you and see what I come to know from there.
If you want to change someone, start and end with yourself. You’re all you’ve got control over.yes, other people can change.no, you can’t change other people.
Don’t stay because you think you can change him.You can’t change him.Maybe work on changing yourself so you don’t feel compelled to stay with menlike him in the first place.
I changed for the better when I quit expecting others to.
She wished she liked him more.She wished she loved him less.
Let’s never stop holding each other’s hands.We all need to have our hand held sometimes.
Vulnerability supported by love is perhaps the most powerful catalyst for real connection.
Often we have to remind our minds that the job of asshole is already taken.
I’m realizing that some of my greatest (or at least most determined) genius lies in my ability to procrastinate.
Books and workshops and gurus are great, but the very best teacher for your mind is, and will always be, your heart.
We rarely find answers in the distractions. But oh what possibilities live within the quiet of solitude.In my fear to be alone,I distracted myself away from the deep beauty of my own solitude.
Compassion will lead you to extraordinary worlds your fear doesn’t dare visit.
there are no quick fixes. If we want our lives to change, we have to do the work.
listen to me,you’ve got this.seriously, you’ve got this.
If only I could spend all days surrounded by people brave enough to open their hearts for real.
Make noise for justice.Make noise for inclusion.Make noise for empathy.Make noise for our planet.Make noise for civil rights.Make noise for women’s rights.Make noise for compassion.Make noise for LOVE.
Only when I quit lying to myself did I discover the real beauty of my truth.
You were born beautiful, and you remain beautiful.
I will forever remind you that you are gifted, strong and beautiful, exactly as you are.Will you forever remind yourself, too?
Such beautiful strength lives in uncompromising humility.
Cheers to all the Rebels out there who care way too much about Art and Truth and Magic to fall in line with the mundane task of fitting in.
I’m a sucker for sweetness. Intelligence, creativity and a sense of humor mean little to me if a person isn’t also kind.
I had to learn to see my shadow and hold my pain in its fullness with acceptance and forgiveness so that I could release the hate I felt for myself and quit hurling it blindly toward others.
Then her heart opened wider than it ever had before, and all she saw before her, everywhere she looked, were people to love.
When love fills your heart, all bridges lead to something wonderful. (All roads and tunnels too!)
The world is best viewed through the lens of your heart.
The moon, right now, is even bigger than my love for it.
We all have choices. What are you choosing to believe about yourself, and about your life Believing you don’t have a choice is a choice.
He had no idea how to deal with the staggering amount of grief he felt, so he looked to the sun and blinded himself with its light.
Do you ever feel this way?It’s usually a tough realization, but it makes moving on that much easier. And it creates more space in your life for those who do get you.Oh, my love, you never really got me, did you?
Please don’t tell me not to be sad. I know you don’t like to see me hurting, but my sadness is mine to feel, not yours to heal. Let me be sad. It will pass in its own time. It always does.
Maybe you’re holding on too tight, and the magic comes in letting go.
If you can’t see some part of yourself in every single person you encounter, then you’re not looking closely enough, at the person or at yourself.
when you hate others, you hate yourself.when you hate yourself, you hate others.when you love others, you love yourself.when you love yourself, you love others.there is no separation.
Being right is massively overrated, especially when it comes at the expense of being compassionate and kind.
Approaching this day with optimism and fire, with patience and determination, with compassion and love.
The more attention you put into being more loving, the more loving (and loved) you’ll become.
There’s just no time for hatred. It’s lazy and destructive. We can all do better. Our world needs us to.I love you.
I can think of no greater way to live my life than with as much love as I can give, as often as I can give it.
Kindness danced through the streets,leaving warmer hearts and smiles everywhere it dared to show itself.
You are positively beautiful and I love you. Pass it on…
Your past and your pain will certainly impact you,but they don’t have to define you. You get to write your own definition.
Love doesn’t pity, nor does it resent. Love understands that, no matter our circumstances, we are all equal. We are all the same. We are all worthy of Love.Some have it harder than you. Some have it easier than you. Love them equally.
at last he understood that he has always been forgiven and worthy of love,and that no one could take that from him, that not even he could take that from himself.
My love and anger are in deep conversation these days, teaching and learning from one another. I’m doing my best to stay open to all of it.I’m curious to see what love does with all my anger.
Sheep sheep are adorable.Human sheep, not so much.Think for yourself, for flock’s sake.
I have yet to figure out a better way to combat hate than to love harder.
You can forget how to hate, but you can never forget how to love.
You are all kinds of beautiful and I love you like crazy.
I will forever remind you that you are gifted, strong and beautiful, exactly as you are. Will you forever remind yourself, too?
Shame lies. All the time. About everything. Don’t believe your shame.
If you need to scream, find a safe place, then scream.
Just remember to say THANK YOU sometimes, for all of these everyday extraordinary gifts.
So many powerful, inspirational, insightful, hopeful and connected speeches today. It’s been a joy to feel the energy of the women’s marches all over the country and world. Feeling optimistic and energized.
Just because you don’t like something doesn’t mean it’s bad.
No” works just fine as a complete sentence. You don’t have to explain yourself.I said no, then stopped talking.
I can’t apologize for who I am any more. Even better, I have no desire to.
I won’t stop until I can look at myself in the mirror in love with the person I see.
Love is not blind.Love sees everything and says yes to it all.
In acceptance, I am grounded. In vulnerability, I am strong. In love, I am whole.
I keep forgetting how important it is to just be still sometimes. Without a phone, or a TV, or a friend. Alone. Quiet. Connected to nothing, and everything, all at once. Undistracted
After so many years struggling to keep up with you, I finally realized we’re not even running the same race.
We can disagree with one another without being raging, judgmental, spiteful, self-righteous lunatics. Can’t we?
So much possibility lives within the beauty of your authenticity. Be real.
The fact that you don’t realize how wonderful you are only makes you more wonderful.
Let’s quit trying so hard to be some version of a normal we’ve never really been.