Be patient. Relax and trust. Let go. Then, let go some more.

I saw people who were hostile; they had felt so much hurt that hostility was their only defense against being crushed again.

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

I know when to say no and when to say yes. I take responsibility for my choices. The victim? She went somewhere else. The only one who can truly victimize me is myself, and 99 percent of the time I choose to do that no more. But I need to continue to remember the key principles: boundaries, letting go, forgiveness after feeling my feelings—not before, self-expression, loving others but loving myself, too.

We cannot change others, but when we change ourselves, we may end up changing the world.

Our strength will continue if we allow ourselves the courage to feel scared, weak, and vulnerable.

Love yourself just as you are.