Empathy fuels connection; sympathy drives disconnection.

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.

I won't sugarcoat shit. You're tiptoeing on the line between batshit crazy and sane.

There are springs in the mind from which others cannot drink.

We've let the blade of our innocence dull over time, and it's only in innocence that you find any kind of magic, any kind of courage.

Simply with a change of mind, you can change your life.

A perfume is more than an extract it is a presence in abstraction. A perfume, for me, is a mystique.

No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.

And thus we see that by small means the Lord can bring about great things" - 1 Nephi 16:29

When God is all you have, then all you have, is all you need.

The idea of being stuck in a plane with dozens of people chatting over each other on their phones might feel like Dante's 10th circle of hell.

Be just, and fear not. Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's, Thy God's and truth's.