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

It's in our biology to trust what we see with our eyes. This makes living in a carefully edited, overproduced and photoshopped world very dangerous.

Maybe stories are just data with a soul.

The only unique contribution that we will ever make in this world will be born of our creativity.

Faith is a place of mystery, where we find the courage to believe in what we cannot see and the strength to let go of our fear of uncertainty.

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.

What separates privilege from entitlement is gratitude.