No one can give you anything-love, shame, self-esteem- until you give it to yourself. Today, give yourself good things.

If you're living completely on your own, break out of solitary confinement. Seek to understand others, and help them understand you

Your relationship is not supposed to be perfect all the time, your business is not supposed to do well all the time, your soufflés are not supposed to raise perfectly all the time. Everything is designed to go wrong so that you can gain the skills of rediscovering your tracks, even in difficult or frightening circumstances. Especially in difficult and frightening circumstances.

When making a decision, focus on what feels "shackles off" versus "shackles on".

When fear makes your choices for you, no security measures on earth will keep the things you dread from finding you. But if you can avoid avoidance - if you can choose to embrace experiences out of passion, enthusiasm, and a readiness to feel whatever arises - then nothing, nothing in all this dangerous world, can keep you from being safe.

The only map of your right life is written on your soul at its most peaceful, and the only sure compass is your heart at its most open.

If you're religious, it gives you a perspective.