You have to say I am forgiven again and again until it becomes the story you believe about yourself.

Real love moves freely in both directions. Don't waste your time on anything else.

Trusting yourself means living out what you already know to be true.

It was my life — like all lives, mysterious and irrevocable and sacred. So very close, so very present, so very belonging to me. How wild it was, to let it be.

My mom said there's a sunrise and a sunset every day and you can choose to be there or not. You can put yourself in the way of beauty.

One of the scandalous things I did was as I read them afterward I would burn them. I loved them, but for practical reasons I had to lighten the load. I burned favorites, like William Faulkner's "As I Lay Dying." There's a whole list in the back of my book. It's me,[Adolf] Hitler, [Benito] Mussolini, and Pol Pot. We're the book burners.

Don't surrender all your joy for an idea you used to have about yourself that isn't true anymore.