Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage. Truth and courage aren’t always comfortable, but they’re never weakness.
Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves, even when we risk disappointing others.
Because true belonging only happens when we present our authentic, imperfect selves to the world, our sense of belonging can never be greater than our level of self-acceptance.
Vulnerability is not about winning, and it’s not about losing. It’s about having the courage to show up and be seen.
Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
That which you do not bring to consciousness comes to you as your Fate, that which you do bring to consciousness, whether it was what you thought you wanted or not, is your destiny.
Give your best effort, because you are worth your best effort.
Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you.’ Mature love says ‘I need you because I love you.’
One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.
It’s not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it.
Empathy is a respectful understanding of what others are experiencing. Instead of offering empathy, we often have a strong urge to give advice or reassurance and to explain our own position or feeling. Empathy, however, calls upon us to empty our mind and listen to others with our whole being.
Recovery can only take place within the context of relationships; it cannot occur in isolation.
The act of revealing oneself fully to another and still being accepted may be the major vehicle of therapeutic help.
We become more successful when we are happier and more positive.
Happiness is such an incredible advantage in our life. When the human brain is positive, our intelligence rises, we stop diverting resources to think about anxiety.
Most people keep waiting on happiness, putting off happiness until they’re successful or until they achieve some goal, which means we limit both happiness and success. That formula doesn’t work.
Once the subconscious mind accepts an idea, it begins to execute it.
No matter what your current ability is, effort is what ignites that ability and turns it into accomplishment.
In a growth mindset, challenges are exciting rather than threatening. So rather than thinking, oh, I’m going to reveal my weaknesses, you say, wow, here’s a chance to grow.