Some of the most patriarchal thinkers I know are women. Some of the most feminist thinkers are men.

Attack thoughts towards others are attack thoughts towards ourselves.

Once we truly understand that God's will is that we be happy, we no longer feel the need to ask for anything other than that God's will be done.

Fill you mind with the meaningless stimuli of a world preoccupied with meaningless things, and it will not be easy to feel peace in your heart.

What we really need to avoid is this epidemic of false positivism and false happiness, which says if it hurts, it must be bad. Sometimes it hurts because you have a conscience.

Midlife is not the time to disenchant ourselves. It's a time to turn on all our magic in full force.

Sometimes the purpose of a day is to merely feel our sadness, knowing that as we do, we allow whole layers of grief, like old skin cells to drop off us