"We have to be willing to acknowledge the good, or all we bring is bitterness to the bad, and that doesn't help make things any better."

"It's not enough to open your eyes. You must open your heart as well."

"A change of attitude changes everything.A bad attitude never leads to a good life."

"I see you. I see your strength and courage, your hesitations and fears. I see the way you love others, and your struggle to love yourself.I see how hard you work to grow, and your dedication to heal. I see your vulnerable humanity, and your transcendent divinity.I see you, and I love what I see."

"We are here to love. Everything else is distraction."

"Please don't tell me not to be sad. I know you don't like to see me hurting, but my sadness is mine to feel, not yours to heal. Let me be sad. It will pass in its own time. It always does."

"We have to figure out a kinder way to connect with each other, and practice at it every day. Make it a think we love to do. One of our favorite things, in fact. Until it becomes our only way of being."

"It is love, has been love, will always be love that makes the biggest difference in our world."

"Love is not quiet.Love is loud and clear. Love makes noise for justice, against all injustice,and never forgets those most vulnerable.I am seeing, more clearly than ever,what Love demands,and I will do my best to answer its callwith conviction, and an open heart for all."

"A great giftwe can giveto ourselvesis a willingnessto love everyone,no matter what.This frees us completely from the toxicjustificationswe use to hate."

"A little creativity can make something ordinary, extraordinary, and something extraordinary that much more so."

"A few things to remember:You are beautiful, just as you are. You are as worthy as anyone who has ever lived. Your voice doesn't just matter but is needed.Your love makes a profound difference.Your compassion serves us all.We are family.We'll figure that out someday,with a lot of dedication and hard work.It will be worth it.I love you."

"With each day that passes, it becomes more and more clear that the most true way to make it through this life is with the deepest possible commitment to compassion and a relentless dedication to love."

"Our differences are beautiful, yet sometimes connection requires us to focus on our similarities, like the fact that we are all trying, all struggling, all wanting to be seen and to be loved. Perhaps if we start there, with this basic understanding of what it means to be alive, we will grow in our connection to one another and learn to love the beautiful differences that embody our improbable human reality."

"I'm realizing that some of my greatest (or at least most determined) genius lies in my ability to procrastinate."

"I am continually coming back to the belief that I know nothing, or that there are much deeper places to go with what I think I know. It's liberating, actually. I don't think the biggest questions can be answered with any certainty. I'm becoming more and more peaceful not knowing."

"There is no downside to taking care of yourself."

"In my experience, it is always worth it to find the love that lives inside you. No matter how deep you have to dig sometimes."

"You can't do everything for everyone, not even for yourself. It's okay to ask for help when you need it."

"You were born beautiful, and you remain beautiful."

"I can't control my feelings, but I'm learning to have a say in how much my feelings control me."

"To all the friends out there struggling while so many are celebrating right now, please know that you are not alone, and you are so loved. I hold you in my heart and send you extra support and love these days, and all the light I know how to muster. I love you."

"Thank you for being such a beautiful friend. I am in awe of you."

"Shout out to the noisemakers. Our world needs your voices.Make noise for justice.Make noise for inclusion.Make noise for empathy.Make noise for our planet.Make noise for civil rights.Make noise for women's rights.Make noise for compassion.Make noise for LOVE."

"You know the doubts. You are good enough. You are important. You are worthy. You are kind. You are all you need to be. You are love."

"If you want to change someone, start and end with yourself. You're all you've got control over.yes, other people can change.no, you can't change other people."

"Many of us have gotten so used to playing to the expectations of society, of our families,of our friends, and of our minds, that we don't even allow ourselves to consider who we really are or what we really need. We ignore the callsof our hearts, giving our lives, instead, to thedemands of an outside world built on fitting in.We can stop this, right now. We can choose to listen to ourselves, to heed our deepest callings,whatever they are. We can give ourselves thefreedom to be whoever the hell we want to bein this world. Right now, if we choose to.And why wouldn't we?"

"I know it's hard sometimes to recognize how truly beautiful you are, and how truly worthy of love you have always been and will always be. It's hard sometimes to see the truth of your divinity amidst the closed, judgmental opinions of the outside world, and of your own critical mind. But your beauty and your worthiness have nothing to do with anyone's opinions, or anyone's mind, not even your own. Your real truth lives in the heart, and your heart, as big and open and generous as it is, will never stop marveling at your stunning existence."

"She felt likee doing her part to change the world, so she started by giving thanks for all the blessings of her life, rather than bemoaning all that was missing from it. Then she complimented her reflection in the mirror, instead of criticizing it as she usually did. Next she walked into her neighborhood and offered her smile to everyone she passed, whether or not they offered theirs to her. Each day she did these things, and soon they became habit. Each day she lived with more gratitude, more acceptance, more kindnesss. And sure enough, the world around her began to change. Because she had decided so, she was single-handedly doing her part to change it."

"Let's quit trying so hard to be some version of a normal we've never really been."

"We rarely find answers in the distractions. But oh what possibilities live within the quiet of solitude.In my fear to be alone,I distracted myself away from the deep beauty of my own solitude."

"When we open ourselves up to feeling, we can't only open ourselves up to feeling certain things. The same is true when we shut ourselves down. The walls that guard against sadness also guard against happiness."

"Let's never stop holding each other's hands.We all need to have our hand held sometimes."

"When someone rejects you, for whatever reason, that rejection reflects their wants, not your limitations. you are in no way defined by the rejection, or the acceptance, of anyone else. your worth depends on no one. and as hard as it can be to see it as such, there is just as big a gift in not connecting with those who don't see your value, as there is in uniting with those who do."

"Only when I quit lying to myself did I discover the real beauty of my truth."

"We're not on the same page right now, but that's okay. Were still in the same story, and there's still so much more to be written. I won't put down my pen if you won't."

"Make noise for justice.Make noise for inclusion.Make noise for empathy.Make noise for our planet.Make noise for civil rights.Make noise for women's rights.Make noise for compassion.Make noise for LOVE."

"We decide how much we want our past to be a part of our present.I stopped inviting the past into my life.It took the hint and stopped showing up."

"You have what you need to be happy."

"I look around and see so much fear, people getting more and more comfortable with their hate, more at ease being mean, more united in their separation. And I think, NO. Not me. I will not get lost in this fearful world. I will not play with bullies. I will continue to be brave and kind. I will speak for real unity. And no matter what, I will never stop loving."

"I forgive you, but I won't forget what you did, not in some threatening, I don't really forgive you kind of way, but just because what you did was shitty and really hurt me and I can't imagine it suddenly disappearing from my memory. In a way, it's even cooler that I'll remember that shitty thing you did to me, and you'll remember that shitty thing I did to you. That means we didn't need to forget that we hurt each other in order to love each other still. We figured out a way to forgive each other, for real, and still be friends. How beautiful, yes? Let's never forget that, either."

"I'm super fucking sensitive. I love this about myself only slightly more than I can't stand it. Sometimes I wish I were an unfeeling stone who didn't take everything so personally and didn't need so much space all the time. Feeling can get exhausting fast. Mostly, though, I know my sensitivity is a superpower, perhaps my greatest, and it's the thing that keeps me loving our world in a profound way, when I'm not too busy hiding from it, that is."

"If people aren't able to see your magnificence that's their loss, not yours."

"We're all going through shit.Each one of us, in our own way.Let's remember that, when we see each other on the street,in stores, at work, and at home. Everywhere.Being human comes with lots of complications and probably too many hardships. We all struggle.So let's be good to one another, and cut each other some slack."

"It's amazing to consider just how many people smile at the thought of you."

"I love you, and I know you love me too.I'm just not sure that's enough anymore.Don't we both deserve more than this struggle?"

"How much longer until we finally figure out how to be with one another?How many times do we have to play out this pain?I'm ready for something different.Aren't you."

"Your enoughness is off the charts."

"The more attention you put into being more loving, the more loving (and loved) you'll become."

"Just remember to say THANK YOU sometimes, for all of these everyday extraordinary gifts."