Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own Person

by Shonda Rhimes

But dreams do not come true just because you dream them. It’s hard work that makes things happen. It’s hard work that creates change.

Volunteer some hours. Focus on something outside yourself. Devote a slice of your energies toward making the world suck less every week.

Badassery: 1. (noun) the practice of knowing one’s own accomplishments and gifts, accepting one’s own accomplishments and gifts and celebrating one’s own accomplishments and gifts; 2. (noun) the practice of living life with swagger : SWAGGER (noun or verb) a state of being that involves loving oneself, waking up “like this” and not giving a crap what anyone else thinks about you. Term first coined by William Shakespeare.

Freedom lies across the field of the difficult conversation.

Happiness comes from living as you need to, as you want to. As your inner voice tells you to. Happiness comes from being who you actually are instead of who you think you are supposed to be.

You must do the things you think you cannot do. —ELEANOR ROOSEVELT