The difference between success and failure isn't the absence of fear but the determination to pursue your heart's desires no matter how scared you are.

Forcing yourself to think happy lies doesn't heal your dreams. Getting to the truth does.

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.

Many of us assume that we have to do things a certain way: ignore passion in favor of safer bets, act stoic amid inner turmoil, run on an upward trajectory of success and money acquisition at any emotional cost. But these are not rules.

I once read that forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a different past...but forgiving is not the same as obliterating memory.

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

I'm not saying we have power over everything in our lives - if that were true, my hair would look so, so different - but I am saying that there's no circumstance in which we are completely powerless.