There's always another level up. There's always another ascension. More grace, more light, more generosity, more compassion, more to shed, more to grow.

A true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life.

I've never seen any life transformation that didn't begin with the person in question finally getting tired of their own bullshit.

Tis' better to live your own life imperfectly than to imitate someone else's perfectly.

Stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be.

I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises.

This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.

You were given life; it is your duty (and also your entitlement as a human being) to find something beautiful within life, no matter how slight.

Never forget that once upon a time, in an unguarded moment, you recognized yourself as a friend.

If you're going to answer the call and you're going to transform and you're going to change, get ready. It is not a day at the beach.

Being content with what you have already is an art form that leads to a peace that can’t be replaced by anything else.

International business, once allowed to stalk uncontrolled, killed the local, the small, the quirky.

The author says the mark of a true rest your creature is an inability to be still without a kind of resignation.

All things are possible for me because I believe all things are possible.

Advanced cultures are usually sophisticated enough, or have been sophisticated enough at some point in their pasts, to realize that foxes shouldn't be relied on to guard henhouses.

I'm not a completely closed book; I'm a social person and if I see something worth sharing, I'm happy to do that.

But no one told me that when you're in the military, they own you.

I wouldn't ever presume to say that I am a comic book fan.

Astronomy is ... the only progressive Science which the ancient world produced.

I believe that love and laughter can only happen when one person takes the time to think about what would cause the other person to feel good.

Lauren Kirshner creates a first-person narrator you never stop rooting for. . . . [Where We Have to Go] highlights Kirshner as a new novelist to watch. A very strong, original debut.