Love yourself, accept yourself, forgive yourself, and be good to yourself, because without you the rest of us are without a source of many wonderful things.
Everybody wants happiness, nobody wants pain, but you can’t have a rainbow without a little rain.
If we really want to love we must learn how to forgive.
There are two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations.
Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.
I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.
Authenticity is the daily practice of letting go of who we think we’re supposed to be and embracing who we are.
I now see how owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we will ever do.
You can choose courage or you can choose comfort, but you can’t have both.
You are imperfect, you are wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging.
Yes, I am imperfect and vulnerable and sometimes afraid, but that doesn’t change the truth that I am also brave and worthy of love and belonging.
When perfectionism is driving us, shame is riding shotgun and fear is that annoying backseat driver!
The dark does not destroy the light; it defines it. It’s our fear of the dark that casts our joy into the shadows.
Vulnerability is the core of shame and fear and our struggle for worthiness, but it appears that it’s also the birthplace of joy, of creativity, of belonging, of love.
When we deny our stories, They define us. When we own our stories, we get to write the ending.
Fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.
Every day is a new opportunity to change your life and be who you want to be.
Suffering begins when you mentally label a situation as bad. That causes an emotional contraction. When you let it be, without naming it, enormous power is available to you. The contraction cuts you off from that power, the power of life itself.
Be aware that what you think, to a large extent, creates the emotions that you feel. See the link between your thinking and your emotions. Rather than being your thoughts and emotions, be the awareness behind them.
True happiness is found in simple, seemingly unremarkable things.