It is easier to avoid the effects of others' negativity when we question if an action or attitude is appropriately directed at us. If it isn't, we can choose to sidestep it and let it pass.

Deep listening is miraculous for both listener and speaker. When someone receives us with open- hearted, non-judging, intensely interested listening, our spirits expand.

Whether we give away too much or too little of ourselves, our vitality dwindles.

You don't have to let yourself be terrorized by other people's expectations of you.

Abundance is, in large part, an attitude.

An essential part of a happy, healthy life is being of service to others.

Intuition is a heart message minus the static.

One of the most crippling things we can do to ourselves is expect someone else to make us happy

Wolves together stand howling soft and loud at light, singing family songs.

The veil between us and the divine is more permeable than we imagine.

Write down what you feel guilty about. Now, with the biggest, reddest marker you can find, cross it out-delete it.

I do believe that people can only be in love with one landscape in their lifetime. One can appreciate and enjoy many geographies, but there is only one that one feels in one’s bones.

Everybody thinks I'm this delicate little girl.

advertising is the price you pay for having unremarkable product or service

Our civilization survives in the complacency of cowardly or malignant minds -- a sacrifice to the vanity of aging adolescents

The Kingdom of Heaven is a military autocracy and there is no public opinion in it.

I just worry about the girls who look up to me. I don't want them to think I starve myself or don't eat, and that to be like me that's what they have to do.

If you want to produce really horrible, obnoxious kids, say yes to them all the time.

It’s sad to see them staring wistfully through the window when the door isn’t locked.

Conquer, but don't triumph.

Due to budget cutbacks, the light at the end of the tunnel has been turned off.