It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them.

The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn, feel, change, grow or love. Chained by his certitude, he is a slave; he has forfeited his freedom. Only the person who risks is truly free.

Those who think they know it all have no way of finding out they don't.

When we give ourselves in love we become our most vulnerable. We are never safe. We become open to disappointment and hurt.

No one gets out of this world alive, so the time to live, learn, care, share, celebrate, and love is now.

The only lasting trauma is the one we suffer without positive change.

We are so ruled by what people tell us we must be that we have forgotten who we are.