The life you want is on the other side of the labor pains it takes to birth it.

If you are a card-carrying human being, chances are that you share the same fear as all other humans: the fear of losing love, respect and connection to others. And if you are human, in order to avoid or prevent the pain, trauma and perceived devastation of the loss, you will do anything to avoid your greatest fear from being visited on you.

Your purpose gave birth to you. It has molded and shaped who you are and what you do. Your purpose is the reason you live and breathe. Your purpose guides your heart, hands, and head. It is alive in you. It is there, within, that you must seek to know it and live it.

When you don't show up as who you are, people fall in love with who you're not. Then when they find out who you are, that's when they leave.

I believe that the only thing that will dispel the darkness is for the light to come on. And the lights are coming on. Here, there. People are eating more vegetables, living green, taking in and saving animals. All of that is the light coming on.

This is probably one of the most difficult challenges any parent could face - learning to love the other parent enough to make the children first.

With all things in life, we do not get what we ask for, we get what we expect.