Choosing to take responsibility for ourselves and for the consequences our choices create looks like hard work, but it really sets us free.

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

Today I will honor, cherish, and love myself. When I get confused about what to do, I just have to remember that I need to be true to myself. I will break free of the hold that others-and their expectations-ha ve on me.

Panic is our great enemy.

If we are waiting for guaranteed courses of action, we may spend much of our life waiting.

Gratitude turns what we have into enough.

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.