“and then there was that time you sucked down your fear, breathed into it, faced it with a courage that moves mountains, and you stepped right into that thing, that situation, that experience moments and forever before had crippled and controlled you, and had you believing you could never rise up to meet it. but you did, because you could. and you will again, because you can. yes, you can.”

“You don’t have to do the same things you’ve always done, if it no longer feels good to do them. Give yourself permission to try something different, something new. Give yourself permission to break away from routine and obligation. Permission to explore, and to soar.”

“beneath the pain of your fears, wild and ready, lives your truth, the essence of your singular beauty, hoping, waiting for you to set it free.”

“She shot out of her seat, tired of waiting, at last ready to create her future.”

“He lifted himself out of the darkness of his fears, into a bright new world of possibility.”

“He knew his words could not convey the impossible love he felt for her, so he held her stare and hoped (prayed!) she would understand the immensity of it all.”

“Anger gets me going.Hope sustains me.”

“We all get in a funk sometimes.It doesn’t mean you’re failing, or ungrateful, or stupid, or lost. It means you’re human.The Funk happens. For all of us. We can’t be happy all the time. We don’t need to be.”

“I look around and see so much fear, people getting more and more comfortable with their hate, more at ease being mean, more united in their separation. And I think, NO. Not me. I will not get lost in this fearful world. I will not play with bullies. I will continue to be brave and kind. I will speak for real unity. And no matter what, I will never stop loving.”

“Don’t let the lies that darken our world keep you from living within your truth.”

“Give people a chance.”

“In my experience, it is always worth it to find the love that lives inside you. No matter how deep you have to dig sometimes.”

“Cheers to all the Rebels out there who care way too much about Art and Truth and Magic to fall in line with the mundane task of fitting in.”