If you believe that a given situation should make you unhappy, then it will, and the unhappiness will then reinforce the condition.

The best favors are worth doing for the doing, not because we'll ever get paid back appropriately.

I was amplifying the negative at the expense of the positive, not to serve any useful function, not to make my writing better, but to destroy it. The lizard brain, so attuned to people laughing behind our backs, was on high alert for this sort of criticism and would do anything it could to stop me from writing again. I haven't sought out and read a review or a tweet since.

It takes confidence and guts to intentionally create tension.

The mirror we hold up to the person next to us is one of the most important pictures she will ever see.

Your generosity is more important than your perfection.

You have everything you need to build something far bigger than yourself.