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.
Yes, I’m a fan of living some part of each day with my head in the clouds.
Why spend your time fighting to make a damaging reality work? Be willing to move on from the people and situations that don’t serve your heart. You are capable of creating relationships and circumstances rooted in respect, equality and love. But you have to believe you deserve them.
I have yet to figure out a better way to combat hate than to love harder.
Today is the perfect day to do something daring. Like just be yourself, for instance.
Approaching this day with optimism and fire, with patience and determination, with compassion and love.
Let’s quit trying so hard to be some version of a normal we’ve never really been.
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 finally stopped seeking in others everything I could only find in myself.
It only hurts us to love when we do so with expectation. And that’s not really love, anyway. Love has no expectations, no qualifiers, no conditions. Love is pure, untouched by our mind’s demands, untainted by our desperation and fear. Love can only be beautiful. It can only be divine. No, love doesn’t hurt, not when it’s real. Love empowers. It strengthens. It reminds us who we really are and why we’re really here. Love, more than anything else in this entire world, heals us.
Remember to tell those you love just how much you love them. Tell them why too. Let them know what a beautiful difference their presence makes in your life. Remind them they are unique and wonderful and important. And then toss in a kiss for good measure.
The only way to free yourself from all the anxiety you’re feeling about the difficult conversation you know you need to have is by having the difficult conversation. It’s time. It’s been time. You’ll survive it. Just be brave and start talking.
Only when I quit lying to myself did I discover the real beauty of my truth.
To all the friends out there struggling while so many are celebrating right now, please know that you are not alone, and you are so loved. I hold you in my heart and send you extra support and love these days, and all the light I know how to muster. I love you.
You change our world for the better by changing our world for the better.
We can’t act cruelly toward others without also being negatively affected by our actions. We really are all connected, deeper than we know. If we can’t be kinder to each other simply because it’s the compassionate and loving way to be, the less remember that when we hurt others, we hurt ourselves, too. Every single time. Just one more reason to treat each other well.
If only I could spend all my days surrounded by people brave enough to open their hearts for real.
Making someone responsible for your misery also makes them responsible for your happiness. Why give that power to anyone but yourself?
Don’t waste mirror time criticizing your appearance when you could be spending it complementing the one person who has seen you through all of life’s challenges and will get you through all that’s coming. that reflection of yours deserves nothing but praise, for as long as you’re able to look in the mirror and see the it.
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.