Through my research, I found that vulnerability is the glue that holds relationships together. It's the magic sauce.

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.

You should be aware of fake friends because it is the hardest to be aware of.

Hope sees the invisible feels the intangible and achieves the impossible.

As the print of the seal on the wax is the express image of the seal itself, so Christ is the express image - the perfect representation of God.

If God can bring blessing from the broken body of Jesus and glory from something that's obscene as the cross, He can bring blessing from my problems and my pain and my unanswered prayer.

What is important is that we make sure to work together, that we understand our strength comes from unity and not division.

Genius, the Pythian of the beautiful, leaves its large truths a riddle to the dull.

It is wise to remember that you are one of those who can be fooled some of the time.

Gradually I came to realize that people will more readily swallow lies than truth, as if the taste of lies was homey, appetizing: a habit.

Those that walk with fear will always be too busy hiding.

I think one of the most important things I can give my children is the right to be themselves.