My dad used to say, 'Just be yourself and you'll be fine,' but it's really, really true.

There's a lot of life on the planet that needs love, wants love, deserves love, in whatever capacity we are able.

I feel it is a blessing, a duty, an honor, that we give the love that we have, and we share the lives that we have with our fullest heart.

I foster a lot. Not humans, animals.

If I'm feeling hurt, sad, lonely, depressed, and then I shame myself for feeling that, then that's a black hole for me. I really have worked a lot to meet pain with both gratitude and gentleness.

Nothing is all good or all bad, nothing is black or white, everything is just messy and human and difficult.

The pain is always bringing me a lesson. If I listen to the lesson when the pain is manageable, the pain won't get gargantuan and flatten me entirely, because I will have received the message at the center. I receive it as gently as I can, because the cruelest thing that I do to myself is try to push myself through an experience.