Right now I’m having amnesia and deja vu at the same time.

Smoking cures weight problems…eventually.

Someone sent me a postcard picture of the earth. On the back it said, “Wish you were here.”

Sponges grow in the ocean. That just kills me. I wonder how much deeper the ocean would be if that didn’t happen.

Support bacteria – they’re the only culture some people have.

The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.

The hardness of the butter is proportional to the softness of the bread.

The judge asked, “What do you plead?” I said, “Insanity, your honor, who in their right mind would park in the passing lane?”

The problem with the gene pool is that there is no lifeguard.

The severity of the itch is proportional to the reach.

The sooner you fall behind, the more time you’ll have to catch up.

To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research.

Today I dialed a wrong number… The other person said, “Hello?” and I said, “Hello, could I speak to Joey?”… They said, “Uh… I don’t think so…he’s only 2 months old.” I said, “I’ll wait.”

What a nice night for an evening.

What happens if you get scared half to death twice?

What’s another word for Thesaurus?

When everything is coming your way, you’re in the wrong lane.

“Cruelty is easy, cheap and rampant.”

“Hope is a function of struggle.”

“You either walk inside your story and own it or you stand outside your story and hustle for your worthiness.”

“You either walk inside your story and own it or you stand outside your story and hustle for your worthiness.”

“Courage is like—it’s a habitus, a habit, a virtue: You get it by courageous acts. It’s like you learn to swim by swimming. You learn courage by couraging.”

“Those who have a strong sense of love and belonging have the courage to be imperfect.”

“What we know matters but who we are matters more.”

“When we stop caring about what people think, we lose our capacity for connection. When we become defined by what people think, we lose our willingness to be vulnerable.”

“Courage is telling our story, not being immune to criticism.”

“Courage is telling our story, not being immune to criticism.”

“We cannot ignore our pain and feel compassion for it at the same time.”

“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.”

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

“Here’s what is truly at the heart of wholeheartedness: Worthy now, not if, not when, we’re worthy of love and belonging now. Right this minute. As is.”

“Vulnerability is our most accurate measurement of courage.”

“Midlife: when the Universe grabs your shoulders and tells you ‘I’m not f-ing around, use the gifts you were given.’”

“Compassion is not a virtue — it is a commitment. It’s not something we have or don’t have — it’s something we choose to practice.”

“Maybe stories are just data with a soul.”

“Wholeheartedness. There are many tenets of Wholeheartedness, but at its very core is vulnerability and worthiness; facing uncertainty, exposure, and emotional risks, and knowing that I am enough.”

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

“It’s in our biology to trust what we see with our eyes. This makes living in a carefully edited, overproduced and photoshopped world very dangerous.”

“You cannot shame or belittle people into changing their behaviors.”

“Who we are and how we engage with the world are much stronger predictors of how our children will do than what we know about parenting.”

“Until we can receive with an open heart, we’re never really giving with an open heart. When we attach judgment to receiving help, we knowingly or unknowingly attach judgment to giving help.”

“If you own this story you get to write the ending.”

“Even to me the issue of “stay small, sweet, quiet, and modest” sounds like an outdated problem, but the truth is that women still run into those demands whenever we find and use our voices.”

“Vulnerability is not winning or losing; it’s having the courage to show up and be seen when we have no control over the outcome. Vulnerability is not weakness; it’s our greatest measure of courage.”

“Shame derives its power from being unspeakable.”

“The universe is not short on wake-up calls. We’re just quick to hit the snooze button.”

“We cultivate love when we allow our most vulnerable and powerful selves to be deeply seen and known, and when we honor the spiritual connection that grows from that offering with trust, respect, kindness and affection.”

“Shame works like the zoom lens on a camera. When we are feeling shame, the camera is zoomed in tight and all we see is our flawed selves, alone and struggling.”

“I only share when I have no unmet needs that I’m trying to fill. I firmly believe that being vulnerable with a larger audience is only a good idea if the healing is tied to the sharing, not to the expectations I might have for the response I get.”

“Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it. 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. Only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light.”