If we don’t allow ourselves to experience joy and love, we will definitely miss out on filling our reservoir with what we need when. . . . hard things happen.

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

I've found what makes children happy doesn't always prepare them to be courageous, engaged adults.

hat whole phrase, "daring greatly," is from the Theodore Roosevelt quote that goes back to your original question of, what about the critics? And when I read his quote it was life-changing. "It's not the critic who counts; it's not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done the better.

We are a culture of people who've bought into the idea that if we stay busy enough, the truth of our lives won't catch up with us.

Until we can receive with an open heart, we are never really giving with an open heart.

Shame hates it when we reach out and tell our story. It hates having words wrapped around it - it can't survive being shared. Shame loves secrecy... When we bury our story, the shame metastasizes.