I don't just want someone who says they love me; I want someone who practices that love for me every day.

Healthy striving is self-focused: "How can I improve?" Perfectionism is other-focused: "What will they think?"

When we numb [hard feelings], we numb joy, we numb gratitude, we numb happiness.

In a highly critical, scarcity-based world, everyone's afraid to fail. As long as we're afraid to fail, we'll never come up with the big, bold ideas we need to solve these problems.

Feeling vulnerable, imperfect, and afraid is human. It's when we lose our capacity to hold space for these struggles that we become dangerous.

When we lose our tolerance for vulnerability, joy becomes foreboding.

When you get to a place where you understand that love and belonging, your worthiness, is a birthright and not something you have to earn, anything is possible.