One must go on working silently, trusting the result to the future.

Change — real change — comes from the inside out.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.

Everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are.

There is nothing stronger than a broken woman who has rebuilt herself.

It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it.

Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too.

I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.

We are all afraid to say too much, to feel too deeply, to let people know what they mean to us.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.