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

Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves even when we risk disappointing others.

Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage. Truth and courage aren’t always comfortable, but they’re never weakness.

Courageous leadership is a practice.

Anxiety is one of the most contagious emotions – that’s why it always takes down groups of people, not just individuals.⁣⁣

When I look at narcissism through the vulnerability lens, I see the shame-based fear of being ordinary. I see the fear of never feeling extraordinary enough to be noticed, to be lovable, to belong, or to cultivate a sense of purpose.

When we free ourselves, we automatically free everyone around us. ⁣

Faith is a place of mystery, where we find the courage to believe in what we cannot see and the strength to let go of our fear of uncertainty.

Fear and anxiety can drive us to become very self-focused.

Shame derives its power from being unspeakable.

Integrity is choosing courage over comfort; choosing what is right over what is fun, fast, or easy; and choosing to practice our values rather than simply professing them.

Daring Leaders are never silent about hard things.

We don’t have to do all of it alone. We were never meant to.

he broken hearted are the bravest among us. They had the courage to love.

The purest form of joy comes to us in ordinary moments, and those moments can happen any place where gratitude is alive. ⁣

Never take yourself too seriously. Laugh, learn, keep it real.

We must be committed to getting back up and beginning again the exact same number of times that we fall, trip, or get pushed down.⁣

To everyone who says this is wrong to feel like this say, ‘I was born this way baby.

I don’t like defining myself. I just am.

When I wake up in the morning, I feel like any other insecure 24-year-old girl. Then I say,’Bitch, you’re Lady Gaga, you get up and walk the walk today.

All that ever holds somebody back, I think, is fear. For a minute I had fear. Then I went into the dressing room and shot my fear in the face.

I’m obsessively opposed to the typical.

You cannot control the behavior of others, but you can always choose how you respond to it.

I’ve always been famous, it’s just no one knew it yet.

People ask me why I wear veils. I reply, I am mourning. Mourning what? Well I figure something shitty must be going on somewhere.