Tell me what you pay attention to and I will tell you who you are.

The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

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.