Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it. Embracing our vulnerabilities is risky but not nearly as dangerous as giving up on love and belonging and joy—the experiences that make us the most vulnerable. Only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light.

Brené Brown

I believe that each of us comes from the creator trailing wisps of glory.

Maya Angelou

You might never fail on the scale I did, but some failure in life is inevitable. It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case, you fail by default.

J.K Rowling 

The greatest trap in our life is not success, popularity or power, but self-rejection.

Henri Nouwen

Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

Victor Frankl

Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest. 

Maya Angelou

I do not understand the mystery of grace - only that it meets us where we are and does not leave us where it found us. 

Anne Lamott

If you can see your path laid out in front of you step by step, you know it's not your path. Your own path you make with every step you take. That's why it's your path. 

Joseph Campbell

Be softer with you. You are a breathing thing. A memory to someone. A home to life. 

Nayyirah Waheed

I believe great people do things before they are ready.

Amy Poehler

The Inner Critic speaks most loudly and most viciously when we're going for our dreams.

Tara Mohr

Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes. 

Walt Whitman

Be easy. Take your time. You are coming home to yourself. 

Nayyirah Waheed

Knowing that we can be loved exactly as we are gives us all the best opportunity for growing into the healthiest of people.

Fred Rogers

You can choose courage or you can choose comfort. You can't have both. 

Brené Brown

Knowledge is only rumor until it lives in the bones. 

The Asaro Tribe

When we deny the story, it defines us. When we own the story, we can write a brave new ending.

Brené Brown

Traveler, there is no path. The path must be forged as you walk. 

Antonio Machado

Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes...including you.

 Anne Lamott

Success comes to those who do not waste time comparing what they are doing to what others are doing.

Paulo Coelho

Sometimes I need only to stand where I am to be blessed.

 Mary Oliver

It's a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you're ready. I have this feeling now that actually no one is ever ready to do anything. There is almost no such thing as ready. There is only now. And you may as well do it now. Generally speaking, now is as good a time as any.

 Hugh Laurie

Sometimes I need only to stand where I am to be blessed. 

Mary Oliver

Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin or your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.

C.S. Lewis

The fact that someone else loves you doesn't rescue you from the project of loving yourself. 

Sahaj Kohli

The greatest hindrance in our spiritual life is that we only look for big things to do.

 Oswald Chambers

You either walk inside your own story and own it or you stand outside your story and hustle for your worthiness. 

Brené Brown

There is no place so awake and so alive as the edge of becoming.

Sue Monk Kidd

Peace.  It does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise, trouble, or hard work.  It means to be in the midst of those things and still be calm in your heart.

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