Quotes

I love shopping online for clothes, but only from places that I'm familiar with their sizing.

I just love making music, and I wouldn't want to stop.

I've always wanted to do a cutesy little song with a guy and girl singing back and forth and thought that Regina Spektor would be kind of cool for that. I love her voice. She's an amazing musician.

I love Journey and Fleetwood Mac.

I love to surf. Hawaii has some of the best waves in the world, and the most consistent as well. That's always fun.

If you kill the arts, you kill love, and you kill progress.

A deep sense of love and belonging is an irreducible need of all people. We are biologically, cognitively, physically, and spiritually wired to love, to be loved, and to belong. When those needs are not met, we don't function as we were meant to. We break. We fall apart. We numb. We ache. We hurt others. We get sick.

I spent a lot of years trying to outrun or outsmart vulnerability by making things certain and definite, black and white, good and bad. My inability to lean into the discomfort of vulnerability limited the fullness of those important experiences that are wrought with uncertainty: Love, belonging, trust, joy, and creativity to name a few.

You're imperfect, and you're wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging.

When you get to a place where you understand that love and belonging, your worthiness, is a birthright and not something you have to earn, anything is possible.

I carry a small sheet of paper in my wallet that has written on it the names of people whose opinions of me matter. To be on that list, you have to love me for my strengths and struggles.

Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves, even when we risk disappointing others.

Normally, when someone we love is turning away from a struggle, we self-protect by also turning away. That's definitely my first response. I think change is more likely to happen if both partners have common language and a shared lens to see problems.

Waking up every day and loving someone who may or may not love us back, whose safety we can't ensure, who may stay in our lives or may leave without a moment's notice, who may be loyal to the day they die or betray us tomorrow - that's vulnerability.

When the people we love stop paying attention, trust begins to slip away and hurt starts seeping in.

I can encourage my daughter to love her body, but what really matters are the observations she makes about my relationship with my own body.

I love to take, process and share photos - it fills me up.

I've learned a lot since I was a new mother. My approach to struggle and shame now is to talk to yourself like you'd talk to someone you love and reach out to tell your story.

My trust in God flows out of the experience of his loving me, day in and day out, whether the day is stormy or fair, whether I'm sick or in good health, whether I'm in a state of grace or disgrace. He comes to me where I live and loves me as I am.

God loves you unconditionally, as you are and not as you should be, because nobody is as they should be.

We have been given God in our souls and Christ in our flesh. We have the power to believe where others deny, to hope where others despair, to love where others hurt.

Define yourself radically as one beloved by God.

Too many Christians are living in a house of fear and not in the house of love.

If you can look in the mirror and say I love myself, that's going to affect your interactions with people who look like you.

If I'm being honest, I was messing up on every other level in my life growing up - whether it was in school or in my jobs. I was always distracted by my love for music.