To explore what it would mean to live fully, sensually alive and passionately on purpose, I have to drop my preconceived ideas of who and what I am.

Once you begin to acknowledge random acts of kindness-both the ones you have received and the ones you have given - you can no longer believe that what you do does not matter.

Gratitude is like a flashlight. If you go out in your yard at night and turn on a flashlight, you suddenly can see what's there. It was always there, but you couldn't see it in the dark.

I wonder why it is that we so often imprison ourselves in the opinions of other people. There can be no punishment worse than conspiring in our own diminishment.

Kindness is twice blessed. It blesses the one who gives it with a sense of his or her own capacity to love, and the person who receives it with a sense of the beneficence of the universe.

Living on purpose requires us to find what we love fiercely, give it all we've got and then pass it on, as if it were a torch, to those who follow

I need to take a sacred pause, as if I were a sun warmed rock in the center of a rushing river.

Reignite the fire in your heart. Live on purpose.

I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me, to make me less afraid, more accessible, to loosen my heart until it becomes a wing, a torch, a promise.

I will not die an unlived life...I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me...I choose to risk my significance.

That which came to me as seed goes to the next as blossom, and that which came to me as blossom, goes on as fruit.

I fight evil, and words are my weapons of choice.

Perhaps it is the setting

Not knowing it was hard

Hell is something you carry with you.

Men and girls, men and girls: Artificial swine and pearls.

Beat it to death if it succeeds.

There has never been more at stake for women's health and rights.

I am a very committed person when it comes to finding common ground.

Pause and remember - Stop procrastinating! Wishing is wonderful but action is what it takes to make it happen.

When I was at school you got an overall general education, on many things, even just basic facts.