I never promised the universe that I would write brilliantly; I only promised the universe that I would write.
What are you willing to give up, in order to become who you really need to be?
There’s nothing special about your fear.
Travel is similar to therapy. You can go to the best psychologist in the world for ten years. If you don’t feel like actively shifting anything in your life, there is nothing that person can do to change you.
Admittedly, I am not the one who looks fantastic in everything, but still I cannot help loving myself.
Despite having written five books, I worry that I have not written the right kinds of books, or that perhaps I have dedicated too much of my life to writing, and have therefore neglected other aspects of my being.
Only the young and stupid are confident about sex and romance.
Love renders all of our plans and all of our hopes a gamble.
I myself have never been enchanted by the dream of the white wedding, and, heaven help us, the expectation that this exquisitely catered event should be ‘the happiest moment’ of one’s life.
Keep showing up for your side of the job and give genius a chance to do its part.
My whole life I’ve been an over-giver. My general operating policy has always been, ‘If it belongs to me, don’t worry: You can have it!’
It’s what I call the haute couture, high-end version of fear perfectionism. It’s just fear in really good shoes. But it’s still fear.
My career started young and I was really ambitious, and then I had success and I hung out with people who were much older. I think I might have been temporally misplaced, so I thought I was 40. It was a premature midlife crisis.
Most of all, I can choose my thoughts.
When you’re lost in those woods, it sometimes takes you a while to realize that you are lost.
You never know how a good quest is going to end.
I believe in miracles, I believe in the Law of Attraction, but even I don’t think I’m big enough to manifest five Asian elephants cloaked in gold...
There’s only one problem with the hero’s journey, it never included women.
Change is all about motion, motion is all about uncertainty and we are deeply uncomfortable with uncertainty.
You can butcher the sheep only once. But if you are careful, you can shear the sheep every year.