What was going on inside of me became louder because everything around me became quieter.

- Dani Shapiro

Everything you need to know about life can be learned from a genuine and ongoing attempt to write

- Dani Shapiro

You can start your day over anytime.

- Dani Shapiro

We don't choose what's going to wake us up.

- Dani Shapiro

It is in the thousands of days of trying, failing, sitting, thinking, resisting, dreaming, raveling, unraveling that we are at our most engaged, aler…

- Dani Shapiro

Our pain is a part of who we authentically are.

- Dani Shapiro

Open your hearts. Deep inside ourselves, we are all one and the same.

- Dani Shapiro

If I dismiss the ordinary—waiting for the special, the extreme, the extraordinary to happen - I may just miss my life.

- Dani Shapiro

The only graceful thing to do is recognize and embrace what is actually happening, rather than fight against it.

- Dani Shapiro