If you trade your authenticity for safety, you may experience the following: anxiety, depression, eating disorders, addiction, rage, blame, resentment, and inexplicable grief.

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 get lost in the magical beauty that is all around me. My mind is an enchanted magician who mysteriously creates all of that magnificent beauty.

It's the closest place to nowhere that she can think of. And nowhere is exactly where she wants to be today.

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.

I could never have gone far in any science because on the path of every science the lion Mathematics lies in wait for you.

The kinds of things I want don't cost money.

The moods of love are like the wind, And none knows whence or why they rise.

Jesus did not give the parables to teach us how to live. He gave them, I believe, to correct our notions about who God is and who God loves.

It is a tiresome way of speaking, when you should despatch the business, to beat about the bush.

You have more fun and enjoy more financial success when you stop trying to get what you want and start helping other people get what they want.

It is conceivable that at some point a truly united and powerful European Union could become a global political rival to the United States.