“To love ourselves and support each other in the process of becoming real is perhaps the greatest single act of daring greatly.”

Be you and serve up some belonging wherever you are.

What separates privilege from entitlement is gratitude.

Embracing our vulnerabilities is risky but not nearly as dangerous as giving up on love and belonging and joy – the experiences that make us the most vulnerable.

We all have patterned ways of dealing with anxiety that are often set up in our first families. Understanding how and why can set us free.⁣⁣

Cruelty is easy, cheap and rampant.

I think we’re all feeling the “groundlessness” of life right now.⁣

You cannot shame or belittle people into changing their behaviors.

I am not here to be right.

There is no justice without accountability.

Talk to yourself like you would talk to someone you love.

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

Shame is the most powerful, master emotion. It’s the fear that we’re not good enough.

Maybe stories are just data with a soul.

Nostalgia is also a dangerous form of comparison. Think about how often we compare our lives to a memory that nostalgia has so completely edited that it never really existed.

I’ve found what makes children happy doesn’t always prepare them to be courageous, engaged adults.

Just because someone isn’t willing or able to love us, it doesn’t mean that we are unlovable.

The courage to work, the courage to achieve – to achieve the highest excellencies and the fullest greatness of man. Dare we ask for more in life?

A challenge which calls for the courage to dream, the courage to believe, the courage to dare, the courage to do, the courage to envision, the courage to fight.

Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.

The gospel is this: We are more sinful and flawed in ourselves than we ever dared believe.

You are more sinful than you could dare imagine and you are more loved and accepted than you could ever dare hope.

The courage that dares without recognition, without the protection of media attention, is a courage that humbles and inspires and reaffirms our faith in humanity.

If man cannot, what god dare claim perfection?

No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.