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

Be about ten times more magnanimous than you believe yourself capable of. Your life will be a hundred times better for it.

I receive a lot of letters like yours. Most go on in length, describing all sorts of maddening situations and communications in bewildered detail, but in each there is the same question at its core: Can I convince the person about whom I am crazy to be crazy about me? The short answer is no. The long answer is no.

There isn't a thing to eat down there in the rabbit hole of your bitterness except your own desperate heart.

I could go back in the direction I had come from, or I could go forward in the direction I intended to go.

How wild it was, to let it be.

No' is golden. 'No' is the kind of power the good witch wields. It's the way whole, healthy, emotionally evolved people manage to have relationships with jackasses while limiting the amount of jackass in their lives.