Everything we have, everything we are, is a gift. How can we judge and shame ourselves if this is true?

I think this is what we all want to hear: that we are not alone in hitting the bottom, and that it is possible to come out of that place courageous, beautiful, and strong.

This is the only advice I offer you. Pick the small thing, and carry it on. Let it change your life.

It is the capacity to feel consuming grief and pain and despair that also allows me to embrace love and joy and beauty with my whole heart. I must let it all in.

I know what it's like to sleep in fear, to starve myself to be worthy, to be ashamed of my voice, to want to sleep forever. To question why I deserve to live.

I name you today, heart fears. I am small, but you are smaller. You will not stop me. You have a voice, fears, and I must listen, but then I will open my heart. I will love you right to death.

I've had a lot of therapists, so I've had the opportunity to approach my fear in many different ways. I've faced it head on and sideways and tried to tiptoe up behind it.

The most amazing thing is that all my sorrows, all of my darkest moments, are becoming my gifts.

The shadow is dark and the woods are cold, but they are not endless. No matter how lost you are now, you are not lost forever. You are findable.Love just keeps on looking. Love is forever tries.

Love lights our darkness. It is forever tries.

I believe God lets us stumble along, slowly finding our way, and giving us chances to pick each other up.

Pursue your goal. Opinions be damned.

I dreamt that I was old. And you – you were beside me.Forever young – in your hand, a cup of stars.

Seek in reading and thou shalt find in meditation; knock in prayer and it shall be opened in contemplation.

We built this [socialistic] society not for the curbing of personal liberty, but in order that human personalities should really feel free.

Ambition is your inner voice that tells you, you can, and should, strive to go beyond your circumstances or situation in life.

Daily life is the enemy of greatness.

Every need brings in what's needed. Pain bears its cure like a child.

The Crawfords played everywhere, in every ballpark. And we won, won like we invented the game.

There is something very very special, universal and easily identifiable among all Jews; it is beyond territory, it is something we all have in common

My father is an atheist. My mother is Buddhist. They encouraged my siblings and me to take the best part of other religions to make our own belief system.