Laura Jane Williams

The happiest I’ve ever been at work is when I didn’t look for a job, but I hired a boss. Somebody willing to invest in me on a human level, who would help me develop my skill set outside of what it did for the company.

You’re doing so much better than you think. Do you know how well you are doing? Do you understand how superbly you are executing your life? It’s not easy, human-ness: finding the courage day-on-day-on-day to keep on keeping on.

“I like having my hair and face done, but I’m not going to lose weight because someone tells me to. I make music to be a musician not to be on the cover of Playboy.”

Nobody comes to us whole and perfect. It’s the specific experience of two people that can make or break a union.

You can be happy – proud of yourself, in your imperfect, confused, trying-ness – by doing just this one thing.

Don’t take pleasure in reminding people of their place, of keeping them down. Because the only “down” is to your level. Don’t be a sewer rat. Leave everyone else to it and focus on you.

I can’t save you. I cannot rescue you from yourself.

If you wait even a second longer to fly all that happens is that you get older. The second has passed. They stack up into minutes and days and weeks and lifetimes and before you know it, the cage is all you’ve ever known.

She commands attention because she’s so in control, so measured, so aware of the cracks she’ll let other people see.

You’ll do your best, day-in and day-out, for sixty or eighty or a hundred years, and then you’ll be gone, and your life will never have mattered at all.

“Don’t surrender all your joy for an idea you used to have about yourself that isn’t true anymore.” 

“Take my love, I’ll never ask for too much – just all that you are, and everything that you do.”