Self-care is a deliberate choice to gift ourself with people, places, things, events, and opportunities that recharge our personal battery and promote whole health—body, mind, and spirit.

Whatever you are not changing, you are choosing.

Doing something for the mere joy of it—for one's self or others—is quite possibly one of the best returns on an investment of time that a person can receive.

When we inhabit our own life—stop doing things based on the approval of others—we offload baggage and trade up to joy!

Joy is inexplicable peace that comes from within.

Be the spark—live light!

All of us at some time will have someone to forgive for something they did or failed to do. And all of us at some time will need forgiveness for something we did or failed to do.

Don't allow yourself to be held hostage by the opinion of others.

Life is an expression of the choices we make.

Just as we expect others to value our boundaries, it's equally important for us to respect the boundaries of others.

One of the benchmarks of great communicators is their ability to listen not just to what's being said, but to what's not being said as well. They listen between the lines.

Living is a verb, not a noun. Joy is found in living our life not just having a life.

I read the Life magazine articles about free love and free dope in California. At age 20 I drove to Los Angeles.

The fact that a human brain of high amperage, otherwise highly efficient, may have a hole in it is surely not a secret.

Nebraskans know the true meaning of life... work, spending time with loved ones, and Saturdays in the fall.

The problem is to extract the desirable traits of forms of community life which actually exist, and employ them to criticize undesirable features and suggest improvement

In all my work there's this notion of the melancholic. You can make a photograph about the sublime, but you can't make the sublime itself.

Chopin's rubato possessed an unshakeable emotional logic. It always justified itself by a strengthening or weakening melodic line, by exaggeration or affectation.

Here's good news: God is even more committed to your change, your growth, and your transformation than you are.

Even stopped clocks are right twice a day.

To the unmusical hearer a note on the gong means dinner, this perhaps often is menacing enough.