If you’re living completely on your own, break out of solitary confinement. Seek to understand others, and help them understand you.
I am bewildering you a little. Just enough to help you forget what you came to believe, so that you can remember what you’ve always known.
As a life coach, I love makeovers, from new clothes to surgery, pedicures to highlights. But redoing makes you feel better only if approached with the right attitude.
Whether you’ve seen angels floating around your bedroom or just found a ray of hope at a lonely moment, choosing to believe that something unseen is caring for you can be a life-shifting exercise.
Hopeful thinking can get you out of your fear zone and into your appreciation zone.
I feel about aging the way William Saroyan said he felt about death: Everybody has to do it, but I always believed an exception would be made in my case.
No one else can take risks for us, or face our losses on our behalf, or give us self-esteem. No one can spare us from life’s slings and arrows, and when death comes, we meet it alone.
The thing I love most about my job is watching people age backward, becoming more lively and energetic as they free themselves from situations that are toxic to their essential selves.
The way we can allow ourselves to do what we need to, no matter what others may say or do, is to choose love and defy fear.
The process of spotting fear and refusing to obey it is the source of all true empowerment.
Anger elicits anger, fear elicits fear, no matter how well meaning we may be.
People are so afraid of authority figures and doctors are authority figures.
No matter how difficult and painful it may be, nothing sounds as good to the soul as the truth.
If we’re stuck with having expectations, there’s a very good reason to embrace positive ones: It’s that we often create what we anticipate.
Sometimes a psychic tells you something and it feels wrong and others may be right on the money. It’s your choice about whom to trust, and giving that trust is something we do ourselves.
Denial exists because human infants, though equipped with trust-o-meters, are built to trust, blindly and absolutely, any older person who wanders past.
Although beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, the feeling of being beautiful exists solely in the mind of the beheld.
Good-looking individuals are treated better than homely ones in virtually every social situation, from dating to trial by jury.
Good-looking individuals are treated better than homely ones in virtually every social situation, from dating to trial by jury. If everyday experience hasn’t convinced you of this, there’s research that will.
Allowing children to show their guilt, show their grief, show their anger, takes the sting out of the situation.
It takes about four days of virtuous living to create a little weight loss. That also happens to be the time required to get used to eating less. In other words, if you can get past day three of a fitness regimen, things improve.
Absolutely lonely people have few personal interactions of any kind.
You have the freedom to live and let live, to love and let love. Granting yourself that freedom is one of the healthiest, most constructive things you can do for yourself and the people who matter to you.
Anything you’re trying to will is focused on the future it’s always associated with some sort of anxiety that makes the present moment somewhat uncomfortable.