Doing work you love is the dizzying path of saying yes to yourself and yes to a brilliant, hidden self you do not yet know.

The worship of convention has never yet led to astonishment and a joyous leap in human potential.

It doesn't matter how you begin. Just jump in. Get moving.

Just start dancing and the band will find you.

You can't force yourself to say "yes" to a bigger life. You will do it in your way. You will do it when smallness hurts too much.

I know that when a door closes, it can feel like all doors are closing. A rejection letter can feel like everyone will reject us. But a closed door leads to clarity. It's really an arrow. Because we cannot go through that door, we will go somewhere else. That somewhere else is your true life.

Transformation of any kind always exacts a holy tussle. The newborn butterfly struggles to open its wings so it can conjure up the strength to fly. So, too, with artists, inventors, mystics, and entrepreneurs.