Do whatever work feeds your true self, even if it’s not a safe bet, even if it’s like a crazy risk, even if everyone in your life tells you you’re wrong or bad or crazy.

The end goal of all of this striving is to live joyfully, and that there are often more direct ways of achieving this than conforming to rigid standards set by social custom.

Conflict in close relationships is not only inevitable, it's essential. Intimacy connects people who are inevitably different.

Question every thought that causes suffering and test it against your own sense of truth.

Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

The way out of fear isn’t safety. It’s freedom.

I fell in love with Africa and began helping people fix things there.