“I am forever grateful for not knowingWhat would have been. WHAT WILL BE holds none of those bittersweet pangs and it is lit w joy.”

“Never mourn the loss of innocence, because it always brings the much greater gain of wisdom.”

“Emotions are like muscles. Most of them go highly unattended, it's usually the weaker, undefined ones that cause injury to the rest, and there is most certainly memory response in play.”

“Sometimes I feel like one of those sliding tile puzzles. I just get so dang close to what I want to see in the mirror and who I want to be... but then I have to completely jumble up the pieces to t...”

“Just give me a thousand words and you may make your own pictures.”

“Humility and shame have been confused. Humility is knowing that you know nothing for sure and shame is someone having to tell you.”

“The land of easy mathematics where he who works adds up and he who retires subtracts.”

“At the age of 45, most days in Tucson were spent feeling like I was on the summit of Mauna Kea, as I was exhibiting debilitating health symptoms that corresponded to what I saw at very high altitud...”

“The hour is only long thus, if you've waited.”

“Meditation did not relieve me of my anxiety so much as flesh it out. It took my anxious response to the world, about which I felt a lot of confusion and shame, and let me understand it more complet...”

“All this wondering was the weather vane on top of the building of unrest and of discontent”

“Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.”

“Dear God, Why don't you ever get inspired by those carmakers who recall defective models? Please be humble, accept that you made and mistake and recall all idiots, criminals, haters, terrorists and...”

“Minimalism is a girl's best asset, blend tones, smudge hard outlines; if all else fails; Photoshop it.”

“Be the kind of woman who, when your feet hit the floor each morning, the devil says "Oh, no! She's up.”