“No matter how convenient it is for us to reach out to people remotely, sometimes the most important task is to show up in person.”

When you’re buying a pair of TOMS, if you don’t feel like you’re part of a community, then I’ve failed.

I am a big believer in the value of traveling while you are young. The experiences you have in other countries can inspire greatness.

When you incorporate giving into your business, you attract the most amazing partners.

A leader can create a company, but a community creates a movement.

When you incorporate giving into your business in an authentic and transparent way, your customers become your best marketers.

I surround myself with inspirational quotations.

Complicated lives and heaps of possessions don’t necessarily bring happiness; in fact, they can bring the opposite.

Vogue Magazine does something really interesting here: They make it look like I know exactly what I’m doing. Because Vogue made it look like I knew exactly what I’m doing, stores from all over started calling.

Make the most out of every single day you have on earth and be thankful for them.

When people start serving together, they forgot about all their stress, […] all their own problems. They start focusing on someone else’s.

When you have a memorable story about who you are and what your mission is, your success no longer depends on how experienced you are or how many degrees you have or who you know. A good story transcends boundaries, breaks barriers, and opens doors.

[Our employees] do it not because we pay them more, but because they want to be part of something.

I did what I think a lot of entrepreneurs do. I started putting up a lot of ads on Craigslist for interns.

I don’t think college is for everyone. School is awesome, but for me, I was learning a lot more outside the classroom in the real world than I was in school.

Stories are the most primitive and purest form of communication.

If you organize your life around your passion, you can turn your passion into your story and then turn your story into something bigger – something that matters.

I have a lot of feminist idols. My favorite thing about growing up in Arkansas – well, not favorite but something I’ve always felt grateful for – was that I really had to dig for what I could. There was no Internet. There wasn’t tons of feminist literature floating around.

When my body gets to the point where I can no longer function or feel gratitude, then I’ll leave it and become grateful again. But until then, I will appreciate what I have and not whine about what I don’t have,

All my life I’ve been doing. For now, I’m being — being quiet, being grateful.

So many people have listened to my song because of it – I’m beyond grateful. It’s funny because when I met Spencer and Dustin, they were so excited to meet me, but I was like you’re the celebrities to me – they’re the ones with a video has over 10 million views.

By simply doing the reverse and focusing on why you are lucky and grateful things are not worse, you will strengthen and increase your mind’s positive emotions and make yourself happy and even more likely to feel happy in the future.

The good husbands understand and offer to help. “All you have to do is ask” they say. But even helpful husbands have to be thanked, their contributions acknowledged, credit given.

Most of us never stop to consider our blessings; rather, we spend the day only thinking about our problems. But since you have to be alive to have problems, be grateful for the opportunity to have them.

I built a career on my archetype, and I’m grateful, but I’m trying to stretch.