We can say what we need to say. We can gently, but assertively, speak our mind. We do not need to be judgmental, tactless, blaming or cruel when we speak our truths.

The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written. We can help write that story by setting goals.

Quit hanging on to the handrails . . . Let go. Surrender. Go for the ride of your life. Do it every day.

the more we are focused on controlling and changing others, the more unmanageable our life becomes. The more we focus on living our own life, the more we have a life to live, and the more manageable our life will become.

Acceptance is the magic that makes change possible. It is not forever, it is for the present moment

I didn't have to scramble up and down the ladder from despair to euphoria anymore, trying to convince myself that life was either painful and terrible or joyous and wonderful. The simple truth was that life was both. p 214

We decided that sooner or later you had to learn to live without almost everybody, at least for a while. Even people you didn't think you could live without." p 167 love always found itself again.