Want to be happy? Stop trying to be perfect.

Joy, collected over time, fuels resilience - ensuring we'll have reservoirs of emotional strength when hard things do happen.

Effort + the courage to show up = enough.

Who we are matters immeasurably more than what we know or who we want to be.

You either walk inside your story and own it or you stand outside your story and hustle for your worthiness.

If we share our shame story with the wrong person, they can easily become one more piece of flying debris in an already dangerous storm.(page 10)

Hope is really a thought.