“Be about ten times more magnanimous than you believe yourself capable of. Your life will be a hundred times better for it.”

“You have to say I am forgiven again and again until it becomes the story you believe about yourself.”

“Don't surrender all your joy for an idea you used to have about yourself that isn't true anymore.”

“The narratives we create in order to justify our actions and choices become in so many ways who we are. They are the things we say back to ourselves to explain our complicated lives. Perhaps the reason you've not yet been able to forgive yourself is that you're still invested in your self-loathing. Perhaps not forgiving yourself is the flip side of your stealing-this-now cycle. Would you be a better or worse person if you forgave yourself for the bad things you did? If you perpetually condemn yourself for being a liar and a thief, does that make you good?”

“And the fuck is yours too, WTF. That question does not apply 'to everything every day.' If it does, you’re wasting your life. If it does, you’re a lazy coward and you are not a lazy coward.Ask better questions, sweet pea. The fuck is your life. Answer it.”

“If there's one thing I believe more than I believe anything else, it's that you can't fake the core. The truth that lives there will eventually win out. It's a god we must obey, a force that brings us all inevitably to our knees.”

“It's a long life, sweetheart, and time heals all wounds.”