The way we can allow ourselves to do what we need to, no matter what others may say or do, is to choose love and defy fear.

There is no fear when you choose love. The more you choose love, the more love is in your life. It gets easier and easier.

I love music but, of course, I'd choose love over that.

Don't ever choose the people who don't matter over the ones that do.

The Joy Diet: 10 Daily Practices for a Happier Life.

When fear makes your choices for you, no security measures on earth will keep the things you dread from finding you. But if you can avoid avoidance - if you can choose to embrace experiences out of passion, enthusiasm, and a readiness to feel whatever arises - then nothing, nothing in all this dangerous world, can keep you from being safe.