Yet if we are to live fully, we must love as though we’ve never been hurt, dream as though our hopes have never been dashed, and take steps toward the future as though life has never given us pain.

Listen to others as if they are telling you the truth, ask questions when you aren’t clear, and allow others the room to have different feelings than you. No more assigning hidden motives, prejudging and cutting people off before separating fact from fiction.

Where you begin doesn’t matter. Your willingness to start is what counts.

You don’t have to earn or deserve love. You are love. Loving is never about how others treat you. It is always about how you are treating yourself.

Being willing makes you able.

Where you begin doesn't matter. Your willingness to start is what counts.

If you value yourself, you understand that you are a gift to anyone you meet.

Each precious moment of your life in which you are frozen with fear is a moment when you are not being all you can be. In the end, that hurts more than anything. Succeeding or failing does not determine if we are surviving or living. Rather it is in our ability to reach beyond our present self-imposed definition of who we are, and to risk becoming more, that we are able to feel fully alive.

Let go of what you think life should be so you can experience the life you have.

You don't have to earn or deserve love. You are love. Loving is never about how others treat you. It is always about how you are treating yourself.