And I say to my heart: rave on.
If it doesn't light you up, you're not the right person for the job.
You will always be too much of something for someone: too big, too loud, too soft, too edgy. If you round out your edges, you lose your edge. Apologize for mistakes. Apologize for unintentionally hurting someone - profusely. But don't apologize for being who you are.
Someone you haven't met yet is already dreaming of adoring you.
Knowing how you actually want to feel is the most potent form of clarity that you can have. Generating those feelings is the most powerfully creative thing you can do with your life. And not only do we have to put our feelings at the heart of our ambitions, we have to pursue our desires in a way that is life-affirming, rather than soul-depleting. Rigid goal-chasing is burning us out. Soul-anchored intentions are the way to get home.
Being your true self is the most effective formula for success there is.
When you decide to go after a new dream, you need to give less to your current reality and more to your desired reality. . . Take your energy out of what you don’t want to be doing anymore so you can put it in what you really want to be doing.
President Barack Obama started by accepting the military's counterinsurgency, but came out of Afghanistan having decided that counterinsurgency actually doesn't work.
How does a country deal with the fact that some of its most revered historical figures had certain moral values and political views virtually identical to Nazis?
The realistic value of a work is completely independent of its properties in terms of content.
Why can't we have patience and expect good things to take time?