“Nostalgia is also a dangerous form of comparison. Think about how often we compare our lives to a memory that nostalgia has so completely edited that it never really existed.”

“Nothing has transformed my life more than realizing that it’s a waste of time to evaluate my worthiness by weighing the reaction of the people in the stands.”

“Talk to yourself like you would to someone you love.”

“Healthy striving is self-focused: ‘How can I improve?’ Perfectionism is other-focused: “What will they think?”

“Only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light.”

“What separates privilege from entitlement is gratitude.”

“We risk missing out on joy when we get too busy chasing down the extraordinary.”

“We’re a nation of exhausted and over-stressed adults raising over-scheduled children.”

“To love ourselves and support each other in the process of becoming real is perhaps the greatest single act of daring greatly.”

“Dig deep — get deliberate, inspired, and going.”

“Shame is the most powerful, master emotion. It’s the fear that we’re not good enough.”

“When we fail to set boundaries and hold people accountable, we feel used and mistreated. This is why we sometimes attack who they are, which is far more hurtful than addressing a behavior or a choice.”

“Social media has given us this idea that we should all have a posse of friends when in reality, if we have one or two really good friends, we are lucky.”

“Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change.”

“Talk about your failures without apologizing.”

“It’s not about ‘what can I accomplish?’ but ‘what do I want to accomplish?’”

“When I see people stand fully in their truth, or when I see someone fall down, get back up, and say, ‘Damn. That really hurt, but this is important to me and I’m going in again.’”

“Vulnerability is the birthplace of connection and the path to the feeling of worthiness. If it doesn’t feel vulnerable, the sharing is probably not constructive.”

“Authenticity is a collection of choices that we have to make every day. It’s about the choice to show up and be real. The choice to be honest. The choice to let our true selves be seen.”

“I’m not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I’ve always been a freak. So I’ve been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I’m one of those people.”

”Rituals are important. Nowadays it’s hip not to be married. I’m not interested in being hip. “

“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life. “

“There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life. “

“As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.”

“Declare it. Just the same way we declare war. That is how we will have peace… we just need to declare it.”

“I believe in everything until it’s disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it’s in your mind. Who’s to say that dreams and nightmares aren’t as real as the here and now? “

“Living is easy with eyes closed.”

“If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there’d be peace. “

“God is a concept by which we measure our pain.”

“If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create.”

“There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life.”

“Before Elvis there was nothing.”

“It matters not who you love, where you love, why you love, when you love or how you love, it matters only that you love.”

“There’s an alternative to violence. It’s to stay in bed and grow your hair.”

“I don’t know which will go first- rock ‘n’ roll or christianity.”

“Part of me suspects that I’m a loser, and the other part of me thinks I’m God Almighty.”

“I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It’s just that the translations have gone wrong. “

“As in a love affair, two creative people can destroy themselves trying to recapture that youthful spirit, at twenty-one or twenty-four, of creating without even being aware of how it’s happening.”

” Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.”

“It’s better to fade away like an old soldier than to burn out.”

“When I was about twelve, I used to think I must be a genius, but nobody’s noticed. If there is such a thing as a genius…I am one, and if there isn’t, I don’t care.”

“We live in a world where we have to hide to make love, while violence is practiced in broad daylight.”

“You have to be a bastard to make it, and that’s a fact.”

“If everyone could just be happy with themselves and the choices people around them make, the world would instantly be a better place! “

“Trying to please everybody is impossible – if you did that, you’d end up in the middle with nobody liking you. You’ve just got to make the decision about what you think is your best, and do it.”

“I’m not afraid of death because I don’t believe in it. It’s just getting out of one car, and into another.”

“I’m not really a career person; I’m a gardener, basically.”

“Love, Love, Love. All you need is love. Love is all you need.”

“All we are saying is give peace a chance.”

“And that’s the work of your generation. As long as more walls still stand...We’ll need more of you, young people, who imagine the world as it should be; who knock down walls; who knock down barriers; who imagine something different and have the courage to make it happen. The courage to bring communities together, to make even the small impossibilities a shining example of what is possible.”