The second you change the way you look at a situation, your stress levels drop.

Allow your passion to become your purpose, and it will one day become your profession.

Remember that you have a choice in what you see. If you choose to see a person's darkness, you strengthen your darkness within. If you choose to see their light, you shine from the inside out.

The key to serenity is trusting that the universe has your back.

The simple intention to surrender control is all you need to experience miracles.

Be faithful that your authentic power is all you need to truly share your light with the world.

You can't make people be or do what you want. All you can do is be unapologetic about what you want and let others show up however they can.

Take action once a day to do something that ignites your life.

A miracle is a shift in perception. The moment that we choose to perceive our life with love, we can create miraculous change.

Healing opportunities can be disguised as people who really piss you off. Pay attention because they could be your greatest teachers.

Let go of what you think you need & what you really need will show up.

Sometimes I feel as if I'm racing with my own shadow

the progress of real purpose is crippled where lack of money is equated to lack of zeal

A really well-done first draft of a book bares your soul. The purpose of revision is so that everyone who reads the published version believes you were writing about theirs.

I can barely read my hand written notes, typed.

I want to make lemonade out of the lemons that were dealt to me.

whereas, up to the present, there is only one known way of getting born, there are endless ways of getting killed.

When you're a teenager, you don't want to bring your emotions to the surface and talk about them. You want to push them away.

Gogol is unaccustomed to this sort of talk at mealtimes, to the indulgent ritual of the lingering meal, and the pleasant aftermath of bottles and crumbs and empty glasses that clutter the table.

For myth is at the beginning of literature, and also at its end.

My musical tastes go from Zeppelin to Bob Dylan to Kanye West and Lil' Wayne. Anything modern and progressive.