“Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one’s potential.”
—Bruce Lee
I believe in simplicity.
I believe in feelings and family, friendship and fidelity, forgiveness and fortitude.
I believe in motherhood and make believe.
I believe in concocting and consuming colorful cocktails and fussing over and feasting on fabulous food.
I believe in living out loud.
I believe in laughing until your face hurts and loving until your heart breaks.
I believe in behaving boldly and when warranted, badly, taking bubble baths and being barefoot.
I believe in poetry, puppies and playing in the park.
I believe in scheduled working on weekdays and sleeping in on Sundays.
I believe in dancing in the rain and digging in the dirt.
I believe in honest expression and the golden rule.
I believe in nature and naps and that naïveté is sometimes necessary.
I believe in goodness and gratitude and grace.
I believe in unity and the power of the universe.
I believe in being authentically awesome.
I believe in being better today than yesterday but not as good as tomorrow.
I believe in challenges and change and growing pains.
I believe in the inherent worth of every creature on this planet.
I believe in honoring the individual journeys and paths of people whether I understand them or not.
I believe in letting people live their truth and trusting that it’s right for them.
I believe in lifting up and letting go.
I believe that death is just as sacred an experience as birth and that it is never, ever an end.
Mostly, I just believe that I’m never going to stop learning what it is I believe.
Mostly, I just believe that I’m never going to stop learning what it is I believe.
