Instead of hiding your loneliness, bring it into the light. Honor it. Treat it. Heal it. You'll find that it returns the favor.

Caring for your inner child has a powerful and surprisingly quick result: Do it and the child heals.

I now believe that bêtes noires usually attack because we're thwarting our own destinies. Calming the beast turns us toward our best lives.

My anguish came from my hypothesis that other people's hypothetical hypotheses about me mattered. Ridiculous!

Learning to quit while you're not ahead, when the dull ooze of depression tells you things are not going to get any better, is one of the best financial and life skills you can master.

The really potent part of love is that it allows you to carry around beliefs about yourself that make you feel special, desirable, precious, innately good. Your lover couldn't have seen [these qualities] in you, even temporarily, if they weren't part of your essential being.

I really do think that any deep crisis is an opportunity to make your life extraordinary in some way.