“I don’t have to be perfect. All I have to do is show up and enjoy the messy, imperfect, and beautiful journey of my life. It’s a trip more wonderful than I could have imagined.”

“Joy is the best makeup. But a little lipstick is a close runner-up.”

“The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.”

“Commitment to truth telling lays the groundwork for the openness and honesty that is the heartbeat of love.”

“Whatever happens to you belongs to you. Make it yours. Feed it to yourself even if it feels impossible to swallow. Let it nurture you, because it will.”

“Life is a game. You either play it or you get played.”

“You never invest more than you can afford to lose. Never bet your emotional rent money.”

“You don’t have to worry about trusting other people if you can trust yourself.”

“Just because someone shares some DNA with you they get to take your stuff? Call you names? Demean you? Sabotage your relationships and career? No way!”

“Predators seek out prey, prey does not seek our predator.”

“If you have to stop being all of who you are to be half of a couple, that price is too high.”

“The only thing worse than being in a bad relationship for one year is being in it for a year and a day.”

“I would rather be happy and alone than sick with someone else.”

“You never negotiate by ultimatum.”

“A calm mind releases the most precious capacity a human being can have: the capacity to turn anger into compassion, fear into fearlessness, and hatred into love.”

“The purpose of life, after all, is to love it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.”

“For me, every hour is grace. And I feel gratitude in my heart each time I meet someone and look at his or her smile.”

“Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings.”

“We can be unhappy about many things, but joy can still be there...It is important to become aware that at every moment of our life we have an opportunity to choose joy...It is in the choice that our true freedom lies, and that freedom is, in the final analysis, the freedom to love.”

“A good time to laugh is anytime you can.”