I will not die an unlived life...I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me...I choose to risk my significance.

Once you begin to acknowledge random acts of kindness-both the ones you have received and the ones you have given - you can no longer believe that what you do does not matter.

Gratitude is like a flashlight. If you go out in your yard at night and turn on a flashlight, you suddenly can see what's there. It was always there, but you couldn't see it in the dark.

I wonder why it is that we so often imprison ourselves in the opinions of other people. There can be no punishment worse than conspiring in our own diminishment.

Kindness is twice blessed. It blesses the one who gives it with a sense of his or her own capacity to love, and the person who receives it with a sense of the beneficence of the universe.

Living on purpose requires us to find what we love fiercely, give it all we've got and then pass it on, as if it were a torch, to those who follow

To explore what it would mean to live fully, sensually alive and passionately on purpose, I have to drop my preconceived ideas of who and what I am.

I need to take a sacred pause, as if I were a sun warmed rock in the center of a rushing river.

Reignite the fire in your heart. Live on purpose.

I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me, to make me less afraid, more accessible, to loosen my heart until it becomes a wing, a torch, a promise.

That which came to me as seed goes to the next as blossom, and that which came to me as blossom, goes on as fruit.

Heroes are the most wanted and most needed people in the world.

I’m a nice person. I give money to starving babies and properly tip my hairdresser. Why am I the one everyone tries to kill?

When I got the job on 'Lost, ' I was a broke university student living in the crappiest part of town, with a duct-taped back window on a broken-down car. I existed on peanut butter and tea.

PENITENT, adj. Undergoing or awaiting punishment.

To fight evil one must also recognize one's own responsibility. The values for which we stand must be expressed in the way we think of, and how we deal with, our fellow humans.

The biggest issue about the height factor is the bias that the NFL has about it.

one hundred percent of the bishops who oppose the repeal of anti-abortion laws are men and one hundred percent of the people who have abortions are women.

I mean, I am still such the-good-girl. I want everybody to like me. I want everybody to be happy.

There is a certain kind of morality which is even more alien to good and evil than amorality is.