I've found the best thing to do is to really be loving, kind, forgiving and compassionate with yourself. There are some wonderful practices for that which I talk about in Love For No Reason.

When you forgive, you heal your own anger and hurt and are able to let love lead again. It's like spring cleaning for your heart.

Gratitude is absolutely the way to bring more into your life

Go for the sense of inner joy, of inner peace, of inner vision first and then all the other things from the outside appear.

When you're happy for no reason, you're unconditionally happy. It's not that your life always looks perfect - it's just that however it looks, you'll still be happy.

Once you begin to understand and truly master your thoughts and feelings, that's when you see how you create your own reality.

Everything we think and feel is creating our future. If you're worried or in fear, then you're bringing more of that into your life throughout the day.

Practice experiencing your feelings directly and completely by observing them as they move through your mind and body and then letting them go.

It is support that sustains us on the journey we've started.

Put your attention on happiness by practicing the Happiness Habits each day.

Bring happiness to your everyday experiences rather than try to extract happiness from them and however life looks, you'll be happy.

I know I'm delicious. Nummy.....nummy.-Vlad

You wrote in a poem, “I love your body, ” as if love was for you embodied in the senses, and yet more than the senses together, an enveloping sense itself sensuous, as if all the body made sense.

Spanish—how shall I say this?—is likePortuguese spoken with a speech impediment.

If you cross-section anyone's life from one angle and then another, what constitutes goodness looks different each time. It's not an absolute.

The more one knows, the more one simplifies.

You're talking about meaning. I want to talk about the picture.

But if you call me Anne, please call me Anne with an 'e'.

I have an obsession with Milk Duds. Eating them tastes like heaven.

The novel is never really in the first draft. The novel really happens in the revisions.

All we have-ourselves-to Him, and if that be all, that is enough.