Growth

Our wounds are our best lessons, our life's biggest teachers. I have seen powerful love that has changed me forever. It has made me try to walk in other shoes, show more compassion and humility.

Our wounds are our best lessons, our life's biggest teachers.

If all you ever do is all you've ever done, then all you'll ever get is all you've ever got.

Don't be afraid of change. If something is truly not working and you have sincerely done all you can do to make it work, chuck it and start over.

If you have to be perfect, if you have to make a hundred on the test, you may not take the test.

There is nothing, believe me, more satisfying, more gratifying than true adulthood. The adulthood that is the span of life before you. The process of becoming one is not inevitable. Its achievement is a difficult beauty, an intensely hard-won glory.

To live life at its fullest you have to have the chutzpah to accept challenges.

You cannot put a full life in a small dream box. What you need is to have a dream box that is as full as the potential you have today.

You are smarter when you're in the company of smarter people than you. Fifty percent of my friends have to be from walks of life that are not directly related to my walk of life, and at least fifty percent of my friends are smarter than I am.

We live to commune. We live to create. Our enduring biological and spiritual drive is to create, to live in the act of becoming. It is not a choice. It is our experience of our existence.

Learn to love the process of revision — in your writing and in your life. Don't be afraid of the editing.

My life needed a challenge, so in 1973, at age 50, I determined to get a Ph.D. They don't call them doctors for nothing. Getting a Ph.D. is painful.