To honor life, we must be willing to grow through what we don’t know yet, and outgrow what we know no longer fits us. We must be willing to give in to the process, moment by moment, realizing a new plot may be unfolding.
It’s important that we share our experiences with other people. Your story will heal you and your story will heal somebody else. When you tell your story, you free yourself and give other people permission to acknowledge their own story.
Have the courage to be exactly who you are without apology. Admit your mistakes without beating yourself up. Release all shame! Release all guilt! You cannot live if you are hiding behind what was. Focus on what is, right now, and that is you!
You have to meet people where they are, and sometimes you have to leave them there.
Loving yourself has nothing to do with being selfish, self-centered or self-engrossed. It means that you accept yourself for what you are. Loving yourself means that you accept responsibility for your own development, growth and happiness.
We set the standard of how we want to be treated. Our relationships are reflections of the relationships we have with ourselves.
You must be willing to examine and explore your dark side. You must acknowledge how bad you can be and how horribly unloving you can behave. When you know how deep and dark your dark side is, it helps you stand a little taller in the light.
Every day is your day if you claim it. If you wait for somebody else to make it for you, you’re going to be disappointed.
You’ve got to be willing to lose everything to gain yourself.
Anything that threatens, hinders, obstructs, denies, delays your capacity to stand fully up for yourself, within yourself, take it down.
Before you find out who you are, you have to figure out who you aren’t...
Forgive yourself for believing that youre anything less than beautiful.
Give yourself permission to smile a lot today. In fact, why not make it a habit!
One thing that prevents a man from being a good father is he hasn’t completed being a boy.
One of the ways that people avoid taking responsibility for their role in their own pain is what I call the BPs – blame and projection.
I am the one I have been looking for.
When you can tell the story and it doesn’t bring up any pain, you know it is healed.
I have a daily message, ‘Stimumail,’ which I use to stimulate the mind and heart. I have the opportunity to touch over 60,000 people I have never met. I also use Twitter and Facebook.
We’re all in prison. All of us are in prison, but some of us have a key.
We all want to be liked, loved, or needed. That is fine. What is not fine is what we are willing to do to make sure we are liked, or loved or needed. When we make the needs and wants of others a priority in our lives, we devalue ourselves.