Happiness Junkie: A 12 Step Program to Find Inner Peace and Change Your Life

Give yourself the opportunity of silence and begin to develop your listening in order to hear, deep within yourself, the music of your own spirit. —John O’Donohue

May I be peaceful. May I be happy. May my heart be open. May I know the beauty of my own true self. May I be healed. And in my healing may others heal.

Shame lives in the darkest corners of our psyche. It resists healing, mostly because we work overtime to keep it hidden. “Shame is the most private of emotions, and humans have yet to evolve a facial expression that clearly communicates

He who says he can and he who says he can’t are both usually right. —Confucius

When a person stops spending their days being their own torturer, it leaves a lot more time for happiness.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides. —David Viscott

Oscar Wilde was right: “Youth is wasted on the young.”

This revelation left me more determined than ever to change the only person I could: myself.

part of me wasn’t sure this thing called “unconditional love” even existed.