Yet if we are to live fully, we must love as though we've never been hurt, dream as though our hopes have never been dashed, and take steps toward the future as though life has never given us pain.

Being willing makes you able.

Where you begin doesn't matter. Your willingness to start is what counts.

If you value yourself, you understand that you are a gift to anyone you meet.

Let go of what you think life should be so you can experience the life you have.

Each moment is a moment of choice and your commitments keep you true to yourself, choice by choice.

You don't have to earn or deserve love. You are love. Loving is never about how others treat you. It is always about how you are treating yourself.

Purpose directs passion and passion ignites purpose.

Forgiveness ... is a willingness to get over what you think should have happened and an acceptance of the reality of what actually happened.

Investing and connecting are the key factors in turning any intention into reality.

Seeing people as innocent is the greatest gift you can give another human being: the gift of acceptance.

you’re so afraid of everyone pitying you that you’d rather nurture their contempt than accept their forgiveness" - Stacey Michaels

The snowflake never needs to feel responsible for the avalanche.

To succeed at selling a losing product, you must develop seriously superior sales techniques. In addition, you have to be massively competitive and incredibly hungry to survive in that environment.

Whatever lives is granted breath But by the grace and sufferance of Death.

We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking without facts.

Objectivity is just male subjectivity.

The style police think that what we look like is more important than anything, and it is their job to seek out and punish those who break their own fashion rules

No human being is so bad as to be beyond redemption.

There is only one good. And that is to act according to the dictates of one's conscience.

At 25, I was in the audience of my first professional speaker, Bob Bales. His presentation got my attention. I had never seen anyone having so much fun 'at work' and getting paid for it!