In my better moments, I think of apathy as purpose's sleep. In my worse moments, when I'm trying to fix it or get rid of it, I call it feeling lazy, depressed, or useless.

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.

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.

the bible gives me a deep comforting sense that (things seen are temporal, and things unseen are eternal.

I love walking down the street and seeing faces and drama and happiness and sadness and dirt and cleanliness.

It's interesting, though, that in daily life, I think of myself as being relatively unobservant.

We have to choose between dialogue and utter devastation.

I think any statement about stock prices is always suspect unless it's made by Warren Buffett.

I really want to write a novel. I also want to learn to play the mandolin.

From the theft of confidential cables to 21st century protest movements, to development breakthroughs that have the potential to change millions of lives, we are all in uncharted territory.

So many of the things I've wanted are the things I've been taught to fear.

It's exciting setting goals and moving forward with them.

The price of success is much lower than the price of failure.