I had no idea that being your authentic self could make me as rich as I've become. If I had, I'd have done it a lot earlier.

Often when someone comes to you and wants to vent, it's so tempting to start giving advice. But if you allow the person just to let the feelings out, and then at another time come back with advice or comments, that person would experience a deeper healing.

When you live with an open heart, unexpected, joyful things happen

always keep your words soft and sweet, just in case you'll have to eat them, you can swallow it well.

When you don't give yourself the time and care you need, your body rebels in the form of sickness and exhaustion

I remember a specific moment, watching my grandmother hang the clothes on the line, and her saying to me, 'you are going to have to learn to do this,' and me being in that space of awareness and knowing that my life would not be the same as my grandmother's life.

The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.