One can never change the past, only the hold it has on you,” Merle Shain reassures us, “and while nothing in your life is reversible, you can reverse it nevertheless.

There is no companion so companionable as Solitude,” Thoreau reminds me as I carry a hot cup of tea back to bed.

Take a risk a day—one small or bold stroke that makes you feel great once you have done it.

Your heart will always tell you what’s working and what’s not.

Realize the past no longer holds you captive. It can only continue to hurt you if you hold on to it. Let the past go. A simply abundant world awaits.

Simple abundance, 1: an inner journey; 2: a spiritual and practical course in creative living; 3: a tapestry of contentment

We should only strive to be first-rate versions of ourselves. And our best is always good enough.

I’ve got a good feeling that this coming year is going to be your best yet. Heaven knows you deserve it.

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line,” Lucille Ball advised. “You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.

A sobering thought: what if, right at this very moment, I am living up to my full potential? —JANE WAGNER

Today, be willing to believe that a companion Spirit is leading you every step of the way, and knows the next step.

Let go of limiting illusions that have held you back from knowing that just to be alive is a grand thing.

Your diamonds are not in far distant mountains or in yonder seas; they are in your own backyard, if you but dig for them. —RUSSELL H. CONWELL

Sidetracked women, who scatter their energies to the four winds, never achieve serenity. (Nervous breakdowns, to be sure, but not serenity.) It’s as simple as that.

I was learning to differentiate between my needs and my wants and this powerful lesson had to be mastered before I could move forward.

Invite Divine Order into your life today and a more serene tomorrow will unfold.

When we realize gratefully that we can live by our own lights if we access the Power. Ask for it. Claim it. Today.

Regret is the only wound from which the soul never recovers

Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it. —BUDDHA

So it is with the concerto of our lives. Individual notes must be learned and played and practiced before we achieve harmony. And above all, we must learn how to pause.

Since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of time, you are incomparable,

Start thinking of yourself as an artist and your life as a work-in-progress.

Every day we’re given chances to embrace the new.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.

It’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. —SOMERSET MAUGHAM

This I can report from the front lines: life never calms down long enough for us to wait until tomorrow to start living the lives we deserve.

Today you may not be familiar with the happiness habit. But like any new behavior, happiness can be learned.

I don’t judge others. I say if you feel good with what you’re doing, let your freak flag fly.

When it comes to life and love, why do we believe our worst reviews?

So many roads. So many detours. So many choices. So many mistakes.

Friends are readily disappointed by the size of my closet. And I thought it was big!

Read the editorial page of your local paper. It introduces you to opinion and can be terrifically provocative and perhaps a great motivating force for you to get involved in your community, regardless of your political ideology.

If I didn't have kids, I would be at the theater or the ballet every single night of my life.

I love the opportunity to wear something really special and go to a wonderful event at some great cultural institution.

Just because you donate sperm does not make you a father. I don’t have a father. I would never give him the credit or acknowledge him as my father.

I'm a bitter-ender. It's potentially my fatal flaw that I do not give up on something. I will not rest. I work and work and work until I can no longer and someone has to remove me from the premises.

I'm aware of people's association with me and fashion and I certainly take that role on for some occasions, but it doesn't dominate my thoughts all the time.

I expect I should be more calloused by now, but I am so sensitive about not ever living up to anybody's worst idea about an actor who is well-known.

I never wanted to be a celebrity; I never wanted to be famous. And in my daily life, I work really hard to not trade on it in any way.

I have a lot of responsibilities outside myself. I have a large family. I want to know I can always be helpful.

It's not like it's hard to be decent and respectful and well-behaved. I do wait in line, and I do take the subway, and I do do my own grocery shopping, and I do take the kids to school.

I'm less Pollyanna now. That's probably healthy.

I just wasn't one of those girls who dreamt of her wedding day and the birth of her first child.

I wouldn't know how to be on Facebook if my life depended on it.

Men who are too good looking are never good in bed because they never had to be.

I have a fantastic husband. Here's the honeymoon part: I still think he's the funniest, wittiest, most clever man I've ever known.

I tell my friends married life is boring, but that's just a fun thing to say to make single people feel better.

Can you really forgive if you can't forget?

Every once in awhile, a girl has to indulge herself.

My son doesn't know how flawed I am, how flawed we are. He still likes us so much, and that's so incredible to be around.