When you want to do something creative and you want to do something new, you have to start with the thing that's making you want to jump up out of bed in the morning.

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.

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.

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.

Hell of a thing to have to experience, hell of a thing to have to see, to be reminded you're a human being and all it meant to be one.

Often God has to shut a door in our face so that He can subsequently open the door through which He wants us to go.

If a man will not work he shall not eat.

The rooms that are lived in are the ones we find most comforting.

One of my goals as a professor of English is to teach students to recognize and think critically about what makes something art.

I am a cemetery abhorred by the moon, In which long worms crawl like remorse.

You heard it from the heart, you saw it in their eyes. Then I got used to the fact that I couldn't feel my fingers and my feet. That for me was the essence of the battle.

It is the aim of the modern school, not to treat every position according to one general law, but according to the principle inherent in the position

What has violence ever accomplished? What has it ever created? No martyr's cause has ever been stilled by an assassin's bullet...

I want kids to understand that strength doesn't come from what goes on around you. It comes from inside you, and that comes from Jesus Christ.