We can talk about it, dream about it and dissect the fine print.In the end, only action satisfies our longing.

Follow your heart. Then root its longing with the facts.

No moment is too small to claim. Strung together, moments fashion a life.

Risk: no full life occurs without it.

Practice makes comfort. Expand your experiences regularlyso every stretch won’t feel like your first.

Mistakes help to sharpen your next steps. They don’t prove that you shouldn’t try again.

Each of us has our definition of adventure: ending an unsatisfyingrelationship, returning to school, parachute jumping or training for amarathon. Go ahead. Get your thrill on.

Stand up for yourself by not standing yourself up.

To believe that we can have what we want is an act of trust – not only of others but also, ourselves.

If companionship is a mandate for all of our experiences, then we will miss out on many of life’s blessings.

The study book for life’s tests is the whole of our experience. Though we mayfeel unprepared, tests appear only when we are truly ready to ace them.

You were spying on me?" I repeated, this time my tone was stern."Nonsense! I was making sure you were safe." He answered, fluttering his wings and landing in front of me. "That's what friends do.

Because between doing something and doing nothing, this is all I can do.

The Path of Purpose is paved with healing. That healing goes as deep as the wound or only as deep as you let it.

Everybody knows it hurts to grow up...and we're still fighting it.

When I began going to school and learned to read, I encountered stories of other people and other lands.

I want a part where I can use my own hair, my own voice, and maybe even be literate.

To be young is delightful; to be old is comfortable.

I've been accused of vulgarity. I say that's bullshit.

I have so much love inside me, Jason. So much. And I have never been allowed to shower it on anyone - no one wanted it. Let me stretch the wings of my heart with you.

A good journalist is not the one that writes what people say, but the one that writes what he is supposed to write.