You know you’ve changed your whole mental image about companionship and commitment when you use the pronouns “we” and “our” to describe items that were previously described by “my” and “I.”

Let difficulty transform you. And it will. In my experience, we just need help learning how not to run away.

That broken thing you keep trying to put back together is keeping your life from that beautiful thing that is waiting to be built.

Everything can be taken from one but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way. 

For a seed to achieve its greatest expression, it must come completely undone. The shell cracks, its insides come out and everything changes. To someone who doesn’t understand growth, it would look like complete destruction.. 

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order.

Those who stand at the threshold of life always waiting for the right time to change are like the person who stands at the bank of a river waiting for the water to pass so they can cross on dry land.

There is something dying in our society, in our culture, and there’s something dying in us individually. And what is dying, I think, is the willingness to be in denial.

When we identify where our privilege intersects with somebody else’s oppression, we’ll find our opportunities to make real change.

Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.