How much time, creative energy, and emotion do we expend resisting change because we assume growth must always be painful? Much personal growth is uncomfortable, but it's worse to thwart the ascent of your authenticity.

Your life at this exact moment is a direct result of choices you made once upon a time. Thirty minutes or 30 year ago.

Become abundant with your compliments to others. We're all so fragile, especially when we put on a brave face. A sincere compliment can penetrate beneath even the most sophisticated masks to soothe troubled souls.

the more naps you take, the more awakenings you experience.

Change is the essence of life; change is the great challenge, the great constant. Change is the ultimate teller of tales.

Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives, as parallel realities. It is always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend.

Always remember, it's simply not an adventure worth telling if there aren't any dragons.