It is a beautiful and scary thing to sit open-handed and let all your plans float away like dust.

I think this is what we all want to hear: that we are not alone in hitting the bottom, and that it is possible to come out of that place courageous, beautiful, and strong.

This is the only advice I offer you. Pick the small thing, and carry it on. Let it change your life.

It is the capacity to feel consuming grief and pain and despair that also allows me to embrace love and joy and beauty with my whole heart. I must let it all in.

I know what it's like to sleep in fear, to starve myself to be worthy, to be ashamed of my voice, to want to sleep forever. To question why I deserve to live.

I name you today, heart fears. I am small, but you are smaller. You will not stop me. You have a voice, fears, and I must listen, but then I will open my heart. I will love you right to death.

I've had a lot of therapists, so I've had the opportunity to approach my fear in many different ways. I've faced it head on and sideways and tried to tiptoe up behind it.

The most amazing thing is that all my sorrows, all of my darkest moments, are becoming my gifts.

The shadow is dark and the woods are cold, but they are not endless. No matter how lost you are now, you are not lost forever. You are findable.Love just keeps on looking. Love is forever tries.

Everything we have, everything we are, is a gift. How can we judge and shame ourselves if this is true?

Love lights our darkness. It is forever tries.

The sudden pounding in her chest, the trembling of her hands, the inflation of her lungs. It was exactly like being alive. It was reanimating the dead.

The acts of observing and judging are necessarily solitary acts.

Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come you have to get up and make them.

Pleasures are ever in our hands or eyes; And when in act they cease, in prospect rise.

The Thames is liquid history.

People rise and fall on the basis of the makings of institutions.

Giving appreciations, praise, and gratitudes feels good and puts good vibes in the environment.

In all my work, I'm interested in trying to understand the human consequences of government policies.

There is never a deed so foul that something couldn't be said for the guy; that's why there are lawyers.

The arts are the servant; wisdom its master.