Mirroring provides social cues through body language and behavior which enable us to develop more empathy and understanding for others.

We prefer to be around others who bring out the best in us and make us feel good, don’t we? Customers want to do business with people who make them feel valued, appreciated, and happy.

ASK YOURSELF: Who are the people you are drawn to who bring out the best in you? How do they make you feel? Is your positive energy doing the same thing for others?

Upbeat people make us feel appreciated, important, and fantastic. These are the folks who expand and warm us with their positive energy.

How we feel with someone—if they improve our mood or cause our heart to sink—can determine the health of the relationship. How do you feel around them? It's a simple measurement tool.

What saps your energy and drains your strength? If it makes you feel bad on the inside, it will make those around you feel bad too! Don’t be the energy vampire whom people want to avoid.

Fuel Your Ride with Positive Energy. Having desire, vision, and focus will help you turn your bus in the right direction, and positive energy is needed to take you where you want to go.

Guard your energy by setting boundaries, just saying 'no, " and limiting your interactions with people who drain you. The measure—how do they make you feel?

Use positive affirmations to shift your mindset and re-train your brain for positivity.

Be in the Now Moment—don’t squander your energy on a past you can’t change or a future which has not yet happened.

We live in a universe made up of energy. The energy that binds, as it whirls and swirls physical atoms, exists at varying levels of vibration and frequency.

You fear them because you fear death, and rightly: for death is terrible and must be feared, ' the mage said...'And life is also a terrible thing, ' Ged said, 'and must be feared and praised.

There you go. Perfect. And can you still throw up at will like you could in sixth grade? That would be good.

Reality was once a dream that took flight.

Prejudice validates itself as righteous abhorrence of the criminally deviant. So Christian homophobia is just a metonym of that abjection in general.

I went to the entrance to the restroom, where the hallway did a sharp bend so nobody could peek into the girls' pee-palace.

I have no desire at all to become the winningest coach at Notre Dame. The record belongs to Knute Rockne or some other coach in the future.

So while it is true that I find really dark stuff funny sometimes, it's also true that as a writer of books I want to have the whole range of human emotions.

If you always have to be watching yourself and judging, I don't think you're as free.

Mutually counting on each other, watching each other's backs, forcing each other to be brave.

I would say everything should be able to come into a poem, but I can't put toothbrushes into a poem, I really can't!