True courage comes not just from feeling confident and strong, but from being the honest, authentic expression in yourself. Think about how audacious it is to really believe in yourself.

When you make peace with yourself, the world will mirror back that same level of peace.

Unforgiveness is the poison you drink every day hoping that the other person will die.

Whatever we refuse to recognize about ourselves has a way of rearing its head and making itself known when we least expect it.

Embracing our dark side gives us a new found freedom to be with the darkness in others. For when I can love all of me, I will love all of you.

The greatest act of courage is to be and to ownall of who you are - without apology, without excuses, without masks to cover the truth of who you are.

If you admire greatness in another human being, it is your own greatness you are seeing.

It is time to search out your uniqueness, applaud and acknowledge yourself, and let your own light shine.

Notice what happens when you choose to embrace rather than reject each feeling that arises within you today.

Right now, there is a stronger, more vibrant, more inspired version of you that is wanting and waiting to emerge.

Do not wait another day to become fully engaged in your life, to learn to love and to forgive, and to live with greater purpose & meaning.

There’s no such thing as a good or bad person: there are just people who have each been or seem to have been good or bad to you, someone, or some people, thus far.

So what are you planning to do with the rest of your life?Develop a drinking problem. More Scotch, please.

Everything that lives lives not alone nor for itself.

War he sung is toil and trouble Honour but an empty bubble.

I was seeing indoor workers as opposed to streetwalkers and from what I hear, drug use is much more prevalent among streetwalkers then it is with girls who are escorting.

A horrid alcoholic explosion scatters all my good intentions like bits of limbs and clothes over the doorsteps and into the saloon bars of the tawdriest pubs.

Printing money is the last resort of desperate governments when all other policies have failed.

Ballroom dancing is a contact sport. Rugby is a collision sport.

[Margot Hentoff] stopped [writing]. She decided that she had nothing more to say. And yet, every day, she has a whole lot to say, and I wish she'd write it down.

Art is thus materialized dream, separated from the ordinary consciousness of waking life