Wholehearted living is not like trying to reach a destination. It's like walking toward a star in the sky. We never really 'arrive,' but we certainly know that we're heading in the right direction.

We cannot ignore our pain and feel compassion for it at the same time.

Knowledge is only rumor until it lives in the bones.

The credit belongs to those of us who are actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood. We strive valiantly and sometimes there's the triumph of achievement but at the worst, we fail, but at least we fail while daring greatly." That has really changed my life. Profoundly changed my life.

Perfect and bulletproof are seductive, but they don’t exist in the human experience.

It's not about 'what can I accomplish?' but 'what do I want to accomplish?' Paradigm shift.

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