The purpose of healing is to live while you are alive instead of dying while you are alive. Healing is about being broken and whole at the same time.

Treat yourself as if you already are enough. Walk as if you are enough. Eat as if you are enough. See, look, listen as if you are enough. Because it's true.

It's never been true, not anywhere at anytime, that the value of a soul, of a human spirit, is dependent on a number on a scale.

Most of us spend our lives protecting ourselves from losses that have already happened.

Awareness is learning to keep yourself company

What you pay attention to grows. Pay attention to your loveliness, your magnificent self. Begin now.

Change happens when you understand what you want to change so deeply that there is no reason to do anything but act in your own best interest.

If you pay attention to when you are hungry, what your body wants, what you are eating, when you've had enough, you end the obsession because obsession and awareness cannot coexist.

We eat the way we eat because we are afraid to feel what we feel.

Awareness is learning to keep yourself company. And then learn to be more compassionate company, as if you were somebody you are fond of and wish to encourage.

If you think your job is to fix what is broken, you keep finding more broken places to mend.

His spirit chaunged house and wente ther, As I cam nevere, I kan nat tellen wher.

Just the way it never rains when you have an umbrella, you'll never run into people if you look fantastic. But go outside in pajamas, and you'll run into every ex you have.

Foolishness is rarely a matter of lack of intelligence or even lack of information.

'Don't worry about senility', my grandfather used to say.

I plan on doing a lot more work on my own, and discovering and doing more.

I felt like there wasn't a political discourse. I felt like there was just one set of values, and any one set of values was wrong; that there should at least be room for conversation.

Perhaps it's rude to notice when a wizard does something strange.

There's only one thing for Chicago to do, and that's to move to a better neighborhood.

A dog, I have always said, is prose; a cat is a poem.

When I was 22, I was having a ball!