“Recognizing that you are not where you want to be is a starting point to begin changing your life.”

“Nourishing yourself in a way that helps you blossom in the direction you want to go is attainable, and you are worth the effort.”

“The more you take responsibility for your attitudes, the more you can adjust yourself in a forward thinking manner.”

“Your purpose is your why.”

“Make a pledge to yourself right now, to declare that you are worth your time and energy.”

“You don't have to be like anyone else. You just need to learn more about your own creative self and start blooming.”

“There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book or simply close it.”

“I live alone," he said simply. "I live in the open. I hear the waves at night and see the black patterns of the pine boughs against the sky. With sound and silence and color and solitude, of course...”

“It is difficult to undo our own damage, and to recall to our presence that which we have asked to leave. It is hard to desecrate a grove and change your mind. The very holy mountains are keeping mu...”

“Think of what is pure.”

“I am what I am.”

“i held it up, and tried to channel happy dog thoughts toward Cerberus- Alpo commercials, cute little puppies, fire hydrants.”

“What work a person does to earn a viable income shapes their thinking patterns, buttresses their sense of self-worth, and affects how they adapt to predictable and unpredictable obstacles.”

“You will act like the sort of person you conceive yourself to be.”

“Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.”