I make the necessary "corrections" if I find myself leaning too far in one direction.

In life, when you start to fall, you don't have to go crazy, scolding yourself and further throwing yourself off balance. Instead, simply make adjustments.

Growing up in the Pacific Northwest as a young girl, whenever I felt emotionally overwhelmed, I would take a walk in the woods. Being in the stillness and grandeur of trees had always calmed me.

It feels good to rail against what is wrong in the world, to fight the good fight, to beat the drum of making a difference. I am right there with you.

"Balance" as a verb doesn't mean "stillness," but the constant act of making minor corrections from one side to another to bring one towards a center of stability.

The mind and heart is the field upon which war is waged within us. If we can stop that internal fear-based battle, then those outside of us will be affected as well.

There is a polarizing and dualistic experience occurring politically and economically in the world, and I believe we are near the peak of a cyclical and truly chaotic time.

Nine times out of ten it's a minor shift in your focus and your attitude that makes the difference.

I have recently decided that there is no place in my head or my heart for fear anymore.

It is a crucial time to be mindful of our thoughts.

I saw that all aspects of my life had been pulling me out of balance because I hadn't perceived them as part of a "whole," or the totality that was "me."

Success is built on hard work, the right hard work itself is success.

Think and unfold the beauty of your mind.

Putting a piece of you in your protagonist adds depth and merges the worlds of fiction and reality.

The glamorous life is a facade, a frauda farce of frivolous triteThe storybook is blank insideChivalry has died

I am thankful that in the giving we receive, and what we receive is the satisfaction of knowing that whatever we give is always bigger once we’ve given it away.

You are what you think. So just think big, believe big, act big, work big, give big, forgive big, laugh big, love big and live big.

I decide on the basis of conscience. A genuine leader doesn't reflect consensus, he molds consensus.

The loss of my sight was a great fillip. If I could go deaf and dumb I think I might pant on to be a hundred.

I want the cheesy dates at the movies, the stupid walks at the beach and sharing straws in a cup

We turn to literature to remedy the loss, to impose some kind of meaningful order on the nonsequential.