When we don't ask for what we want and need, we discount ourselves.

Relax, you're on a journey of discovery. Let life reveal itself to you.

Even if the most important person in your world rejects you, you are still real, and you are still okay.

We have as much time as we need.

If we are unhappy without a relationship, we'll probably be unhappy with one as well. A relationship doesn't begin our life; a relationship doesn't become our life. A relationship is a continuation of life.

Today, I will let go. I will stop trying to control everything. I will stop trying to make myself be and do better, and I will let myself be.

A man went to Istanbul, his first visit there. On his way to a business meeting, this man lost his way. He began raging at himself for getting lost, until a realization allowed him to transcend his ire. "How can I be lost? I've never been here before?" pp 104-105