A codependent person is one who has let another person's behavior affect him or her and who is obsessed with controlling that person's behavior.

You don't blast a heart open," she said. "You coax and nurture it open, like the sun does to a rose.

Accept yourself. Love yourself just as you are. Your finest work, your best moments, your joy, peace, and healing come when you love yourself. You give a great gift to the world when you do that. You give others permission to do the same: to love themselves. Revel in self love. Roll in it. Bask in it, as you would the sunshine.

Caring works. Caretaking doesn't. We can learn to walk the line between the two.

Gratitude turns what we have into enough.

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

I trust so much in the power of the heart and the soul; I know that the answer to what we need to do next is in our own hearts. All we have to do is listen, then take that one step further and trust what we hear. We will be taught what we need to learn.