ROOTED IN PURPOSE

“Everything was screaming: the sea, the wind, my heart.”

“Gracious words are like a honeycomb, sweetness to the soul and health to the body.”

Compassion is, by definition, relational. Compassion literally means “to suffer with,” which implies a basic mutuality in the experience of suffering. The emotion of compassion springs from the recognition that the human experience is imperfect.

I want to be around people that do things. I don’t want to be around people anymore that judge or talk about what people do. I want to be around people that dream and support and do things.

To my daughter I will say, ‘See your beauty without a compliment or a mirror.’

The morning breezes have secrets to tell; don’t go back to sleep.

The best portion of your life will be the small, nameless moments you spend smiling with someone who matters to you.

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.