I think when your heart hurts this much it means you opened it wide once- and that is something to be proud of.

The only meaningful thing we can offer one another is love. Not advice, not questions about our choices, not suggestions for the future, just love.

If our goal is to be tolerant of people who are different than we are, then we really are aiming quite low. Traffic jams are to be tolerated. People are to be celebrated.

I still get very high and very low in life. Daily. But I've finally accepted the fact that sensitive is just how I was made, that I don't have to hide it and I don't have to fix it. I'm not broken.

Don't let yourself become so concerned with raising a good kid that you forget you already have one.

You are not a mess. You are a feely person in a messy world.

A good day is a good day. A bad day is a good story.

I think that sometimes quitting is exactly the right thing to do. Quitting something that's not working requires self-awareness and courage.

I was what they call a 'highly functional addict.' ... sometimes people who need help look nothing like people who need help.

It is a decision that compassion is more important than fear, than fitting in, than following the crowd.

You always had the power, my dear. You just had to learn it for yourself. Glinda the Good Witch

So Shakespeare stole

Man the lifeboats. The idiots are winning.

I tried to pretend that I was sitting in the stands with a buddy watching the game - poking him in the ribs when something exciting happened.

It is equally wrong to speed a guest who does not want to go, and to keep one back who is eager. You ought to make welcome the present guest, and send forth the one who wishes to go.

Dreams are guests who ensoul our lives if we have hospitality for them.

Don't die to see me, live to love me.

Go after what it is that creates meaning in your life and then trust yourself to handle the stress that follows.

That I was born to this circle - I am blessed. That I choose to stand in this circle - I am proud.