There is some place where your specialties can shine. Somewhere that difference can be expressed. It's up to you to find it, and you can.

Once a person says, "This is who I really am, what I am all about, what I was really meant to do," it is easier to decide how to spend one's time.

Just imagine that you are the person you want to be.

When you respond to an unreasonable person by getting emotional, you give them victory. How do you manage unreasonable people? You dismiss them. Like shadows

Even those who venture to dip a toe in the pond of risk never allow themselves to get used to the water.

There comes a time in some relationships when no matter how sincere the attempt to reconcile the differences or how strong the wish to recreate a part of the past once shared, the struggle becomes so painful that nothing else is felt and the world and all its beauty only add to the discomfort by providing cruel contrast.

The purpose of life is to discover your gift. The work of life is to develop it. The meaning of life is to give your gift away.