We're always looking for the Big Love, the Big High, the next Big Thing to happen. We miss what's in front of us.

Most of us spend our lives protecting ourselves from losses that have already happened.

Women look at their bodies, and they're never thin enough. The financial advisors that I've talked to say they ask their clients, "How much money do you need in order to feel secure?" "X amount." Then, as soon as the client got the amount, it would double automatically.

We eat the way we live.

Diets are based on the unspoken fear that you are a madwoman, a food terrorist, a lunatic…The promise of a diet is not only that you will have a different body; it is that in having a different body, you will have a different life. If you hate yourself enough, you will love yourself. If you torture yourself enough, you will become a peaceful, relaxed human being.

When you don't want to be where you are, you create suffering for yourself. Change happens through acceptance, kindness and relaxation--not resistance, not warfare, not fights.

You are not a mistake. You are not a problem to be solved. Treat yourself with outrageous kindness beginning today.