Want to be happy? Stop trying to be perfect.

Everything that these folks are saying that they're trying to move away from, like comparison, perfectionism, judgement, and exhaustion as a status symbol - that all describes my life. It was more like a medical researcher studying a disease and figuring out he or she has it.

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

The most powerful teaching moments are the ones where you screw up.

But I don't think it's as dangerous, scary, or terrifying as getting to the end of our lives and wondering, what if I would have shown up?

Talk about your failures without apologizing.

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)