I'm not saying that love always takes you to heaven. Your life can become a nightmare. But that said, it is worth taking the risk.

“Love like rain, can nourish from above, drenching couples with a soaking joy. But sometimes under the angry heat of life, love dries on the surface and must nourish from below, tending to its roots keeping itself alive.”

“One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.”

“Anyone who loves in the expectation of being loved in return is wasting their time.”

“Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.”

“The strongest love is the love that can demonstrate its fragility.”

“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”

“Certain things in life simply have to be experienced -and never explained. Love is such a thing.”

“Love is not a habit, a commitment, or a debt. It isn’t what romantic songs tell us it is – love simply is.”

 “When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.” 

The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.

I love almost everything about my work except conferences. I am too shy in front of an audience. But I love signings and having eye contact with a reader who already knows my soul.

Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere.

Even if you “feel” like no one loves you or cares about you, you are most likely loved – and most definitely lovable and worthy of love.

For anything approaching happiness, you have to want what you already have.

Look for the good, practice finding the good, and you’ll see it more often.

The question no one really seemed to be answering was: ‘Why do it all in the first place? What’s the pot of gold that justifies spending the best years of you life hoping for happiness in the last?’.

Friction points and single points of failure happen in any given day potentially, so think in a concise, intelligent way. Out of five items to do, which one would make you satisfied with your entire day?

If you don’t regularly appreciate the small wins, you will never appreciate the big wins. They’ll all fall through your fingers like sand as you obsess on the next week, the next to-do, the next thing to fix.

I leaned against the wall and slid down until I was sitting on the floor. I closed my eyes, smiled, and took a deep breath. Things were about to change. Everything was about to change.

The key to not feeling rushed is remembering that lack of time is actually lack of priorities.

On the Jar Of Awesome: Cultivate the habtis of putting something in every day. Can’t think of anything? “I didn’t die today!” is a reliable winner.

On the Jar Of Awesome: When something great happens, you think you’ll remember it 3 months later, but you won’t.

On the Jar Of Awesome: There is a mason jar on my kitchen counter with JAR OF AWESOME in glitter letters on the side. Anything something really cool happens in a day, something that made me excited or joyful, doctor’s orders are to write it down on a slip of paper and put it in this mason jar.