Our capacity for wholeheartednes s can never be greater than our willingness to be broken-hearted.

Authenticity is the daily practice of letting go of who we think we're supposed to be and embracing who we are.

Don't try to win over the haters; you are not a jackass whisperer.

Only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light.

Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage. Truth and courage aren't always comfortable, but they're never weakness.

Daring greatly means the courage to be vulnerable. It means to show up and be seen. To ask for what you need. To talk about how you're feeling. To have the hard conversations.

What makes you vulnerable makes you beautiful.

Believing that you're enough is what gives you the courage to be authentic.

Shame hates it when we reach out and tell our story. It hates having words wrapped around it - it can't survive being shared. Shame loves secrecy... When we bury our story, the shame metastasizes.

When we deny our stories, They define us. When we own our stories, we get to write the ending.

Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it.

The foundation of joyful independence is being content with yourself

Art is the refreshing source of existence.

I give praise and honor to the Holy one of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob for the blessing of motherhood.

There is always something behind patience and impatience! Be careful enough to understand these two things any time you meet anybody

Avoid distant views, paint objects close up. If the foreground is well done the distance will take care of itself.

Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom.

There's a lot of fear-mongering about "losing control" of your brand online, when, in fact, you've got control over as much as you always have: how you present your business and how you act.

A spark can become a flame, a flame a fire.

It's true, I've become one of those grumpy older women.

Without a love of humankind there is no love of God.