Creativity is the way I share my soul with the world.

Authenticity is the daily practice of letting go of who we think we're supposed to be and embracing who we are.

Don't try to win over the haters; you are not a jackass whisperer.

Only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light.

Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage. Truth and courage aren't always comfortable, but they're never weakness.

Daring greatly means the courage to be vulnerable. It means to show up and be seen. To ask for what you need. To talk about how you're feeling. To have the hard conversations.

What makes you vulnerable makes you beautiful.

Believing that you're enough is what gives you the courage to be authentic.

Shame hates it when we reach out and tell our story. It hates having words wrapped around it - it can't survive being shared. Shame loves secrecy... When we bury our story, the shame metastasizes.

When we deny our stories, They define us. When we own our stories, we get to write the ending.

Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it.

For every excuse that you've ever had or came up with of why you can't or couldn't, there's someone who's had that same excuse or even worse, but found a way and did

Now, then, that is the tale. Some of it is true.

Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.

I got an extra hour's nap.

I don't really think in terms of competing with myself.

I want to make it clear,if there is ever a conflict [between environmental quality and economic growth], I will go for beauty, clean air, water, and landscape.

the existence of broccoli does not in any way affect the taste of chocolate

The problem with growing up is that once you're grown up, the people who aren't grown up aren't fun anymore.

That hurt we embrace becomes joy. Call it to your arms where it can change.

Equations are the devil's sentences.