We need to find the courage to say no to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.

You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.

Women need real moments of solitude and self reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.

The moment in between what you once were, and who you are now becoming, is where the dance of life really takes place.

You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back. The heart will break... but broken live on.

Men are just as sensitive, and in some ways more sensitive, than women are.

What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, drama, and challenges, is a sense of purpose and meaning

Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

It takes a lot of courage to be the same person on the outside that you are on the inside.

I long for the day I no longer long for him.

Even the best buzz wears off, and you wake up more trapped than the day before.

I finally chalked it up to the fact that the brain is truly an extraordinary device: more extraordinary than we can even guess.

The only important thing about design is how it relates to people.

The problem is, many of the people in need of saving are in churches, and at least part of what they need saving from is the idea that God sees the world the same way they do.

Happy, calm children learn best

My dad is Irish. I spent my childhood going back and forth between Ireland and America.

Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

In a way, it is beautiful to be young and hard up. With the right wife, and I had her, deprivation became a game.