Judgments that constrain your giving are the very demons that are keeping you from receiving.

During the times we think we’re being “unproductive,” the seeds of new worlds are germinating within us, and they need peace to grow.

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

Good-looking individuals are treated better than homely ones in virtually every social situation, from dating to trial by jury.

It isn’t necessary to know exactly how your ideal life will look; you only have to know what feels better and what feels worse…Begin making choices based on what makes you feel freer and happier, rather than on how you think an ideal life should look. It’s the process of feeling our way toward happiness, not the realization of the Platonic ideal, that creates our best lives.

Your first daily priority should be stillness, attention to what you really know and what you really feel.

This is the part of us that makes our brief, improbable little lives worth living: the ability to reach through our own isolation and find strength, and comfort, and warmth for and in each other. This is what human beings do. This is what we live for, the way horses live to run.