“Why wait until New Year's to create a new you?”
“Embarking on our path as a courageous soul will remind us that ultimately it does not matter how well we live, or the best way to avoid errors in our lifestyle decisions. Beginning will positively change our daily routines and habits, but the surface level changes are only a meager reward compared to the spiritual lessons along the way.”
Source: Heal Your Living : The Joy of Mindfulness, Sustainability, Minimalism, and Wellness
“Your body is a preposterously powerful, highly attuned machine just the way it is, and the alarm bells it hears (through aches and pains and nagging worries) are notices being dispatched from central command.”
Source: The Habit Trip: A Fill-in-the-Blank Journey to a Life on Purpose
“This life is an Equal Swagger Opportunity. We all have an absolute right to swagger, like a Texas oil man with Western boots, a cowboy hat, and a leathery tan—the whole rich, old white dude package.”
Source: The Habit Trip: A Fill-in-the-Blank Journey to a Life on Purpose
“Tell your story please. I want to hear it. The state of the world is heavy, and the only way to sustain our collective well-being is to listen: to each other and to the messages coming from our own bodies.”
Source: The Habit Trip: A Fill-in-the-Blank Journey to a Life on Purpose
“Systems are critical. They offer you confidence, stability, and measurable progress, but they have limits, too. They keep you squarely in your head.”
“When we trust our bodies to tell us about
hunger and fullness, exhaustion and energy, they communicate everything we could ever need to know about how to survive and how to thrive.”
Source: Physical Disobedience: An Unruly Guide to Health and Stamina for the Modern Feminist
“Trees grow stronger in response to the wind, and their roots grow deeper. This moment in history may feel like it’s planted in the path of a category 5 hurricane. It has ripped us up, but it has also rooted us, weaving us together beneath the surface of the ground and leaving us stronger than ever. We can grieve the loss while, at the same time, falling madly in love with what it has mobilized in us: caring, grace, companionship, openness, and uncensored, outspoken truth-telling. Dying can teach us a great deal about living.”
Source: Physical Disobedience: An Unruly Guide to Health and Stamina for the Modern Feminist
“I led the counselor, probation officer, my teachers, my parents, and everyone else to believe that I was a good kid who’d just slipped up and made a few blunders. I made them think I was putting my all into recovery when, in reality, the only thing I was putting my best effort towards was deceiving each of them. My intellect allowed me to maintain the style of life I wanted, right underneath their noses.”
Source: Pursued: God’s relentless pursuit and a drug addict’s journey to finding purpose
“You have that control. Take it.”