Rather than sitting on the sidelines & hurling judgment & advice, we must dare to show up & let ourselves be seen. This is vulnerability. This is daring greatly.

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.

Authors must spend months, years making fantasy believable in a single work while reality runs rampant and complete chaos elsewhere.

The strange part about a person’s lack of trust is that it often comes from not trusting themselves.

More people are interested in trying to shuffle paper assets around than building lasting assets by producing real goods.

Some guy once told me that skydiving is like cutting your throat and seeing if you can get to the doctor before you bleed to death.

People who really have Ki don't feel it because everything happens naturally within them.

The United States now has more prison inmates than full-time farmers.

Knowledge is power. If it is not applied properly to create, let there be no doubts, it will destroy.

Looking on the bright side of life never killed anybody.

It's just that I learned a while ago that the best way to get people to like you is not to like them too much.

Your strength is just an accident owed to the weakness of others.