Don't expect the future to look like the past. Clear away expectations, and let yourself picture a wild, grand new world.

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.

As soon as you think you know someone else's truth better than they do, you are in deep water.

Seek art from every time and place, in any form, to connect with those who really move you.

To make an activity joyful, keep adding things until the activity as a whole becomes more appealing than repulsing.

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

Fear is the raw material from which courage is manufactured. Without it, we wouldn't even know what it means to be brave.