I want to know if you have touched the center of your own sorrow, if you have been opened by life’s betrayals or have become shriveled and closed from fear of further pain!

The courage to go deeper is found by letting your desire grow larger than your fear.

It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living, I want to know what you ache for, and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing.

What if the question is not why I am so infrequently the person I really want to be, but why do I so infrequently want to be the person I really am?

There is nowhere to go. What you are looking for is right here. Open the fist clenched in wanting and see what you already hold in your hand

When we surrender when we do not fight with life when it calls upon us we are lifted and the strength to do what needs to be done finds us.

We have been sold a lifestyle, when what our soul desired was life.

I want to know if you can see beauty even when it's not pretty, every day, and if you can source your own life from its presence.

Not doing is not about immobility or giving up in despair. It is first and foremost about being able to be with, to accept fully, what is in this moment.

It doesn't interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love, for your dreams, for the adventure of being alive.

I want to know if you can live with failure, yours and mine, and still stand on the edge of the lake and shout to the silver of the full moon, “Yes!”

Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.

One passionate heart can brighten the world. From person to person the chain reaction burns through us — setting heart to heart ablaze, and lighting the way for us all!

I loved raising my kids. I loved the process, the dirt of it, the tears of it, the frustration of it, Christmas, Easter, birthdays, growth charts, pediatrician appointments. I loved all of it.

You know, you're a great barbecuetionist.

Fashion is for women without style.

Government seems to operate on the principle that if even one individual is incapable of using his freedom competently, no one can be allowed to be free.

I would be happier if it were a full audience full of drag queens. It would be my dreams come true.

On the professional side, those 18 years on the farm instilled my love for agriculture.

Have the courage of your convictions once you have made a decision.

"It pleases the Father that ALL fulness" should be there; and therefore there is nothing but emptiness anywhere else.