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Must is different. Must is who we are, what we believe, and what we do when we are along with our truest, most authentic self. It's that which calls to us most deeply. It's our convictions, our passions, our deepest held urges and desires - unavoidable, undeniable, and inexplicable. Unlike Should, M…
Allow for the possibility that the best of you is still inside you, waiting to emerge. Prepare the way, bit by bit
Before you turn the world down, make a little space for yourself. Brush your teeth, tidy the counter, put down the phone. Savor the best part of the day for one more second. Woo! Okay. Have at it, dreams!
I hope you remember that the scaffolding of joy is oftentimes shadows and doubt, and that's okay. Your joy and your success doesn't have to look like anyone else's.
Some days you feel pretty and then you hate every single photo of yourself from an event and that’s a great ego check, let me tell you.
You be you. But I ain’t gotta be you. And you ain’t gotta be me.
Success leads to the greatest failure, which is pride. Failure leads to the greatest success, which is humility and learning.
You can’t ever outrun who you are.
What you see with your eyes is not necessarily real. My enemy is, among other things, the me inside me.
His whole body—his skin, his bones—told him with absolute certainty that he was in someone's field of vision. So what? he thought. Let them look if they want to, whoever they are. All God's children can dance.
What I was chasing in circles must have been the tail of the darkness inside me. I just happened to catch sight of it, and followed it, and clung to it, and in the end let it fly into still deeper darkness. I'm sure I'll never see it again.
'You know something?' she said. 'What?' 'I'm completely empty.' 'Yeah?' 'Yeah.'
A fire can be any shape it wants to be. It's free. So it can look like anything at all depending on what's inside the person looking at it.
No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself. It's like your shadow. It follows you everywhere.
I'll tell you why . . . It's because that box contains the something that was inside you. You didn't know that when you carried it here and gave it to Keiko with your own hands. Now, you'll never get it back.
You can’t be them . . . and they can’t be you.
These are the people who never miss an opportunity to skinny-dip, love the feel of the breeze, are the first to suggest strip poker, and have a master’s degree in joie de vivre.
People will always have an opinion on your life. Just focus on fulfilling Gods purpose for your life and keep it pushing.
I haven’t spent enough time being and belonging to me.