Love and kindness are never wasted.
One of the most courageous things we do is change. If everyone says you're wonderful every time you wear a red dress, and you change to yellow, that takes courage.
Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer.
No one betrays us as much in our lives as we betray ourselves.
Silence and solitude are confrontational. They plunge us instantly into the truth.
It is inherent in human consciousness to improve. So there is nothing unique about a people searching for and creating ways to make their life better - all civilizations throughout history have done this. What is unique about us in America is the accelerated rate at which we continually search for novelty and progress.
no job is a good job if it isn't good for you.
Men are just as sensitive, and in some ways more sensitive, than women are.
A wise word is more rare than the green emerald, and one can find the word of wisdom even amongst the slave girls making grain.
The greatest gift you and your partner can give your children is the example of an intimate, healthy, and loving relationship.
I just want to get a Ph.D. in love.
I invite people to examine their lives without negativity, knowing that it's scary, but that not doing it is even scarier.
in all codependent relationships, the rescuer needs the victim as much as the victim needs the rescuer.
Men aren't the way they are because they want to drive women crazy; they've been trained to be that way for thousands of years. And that training makes it very difficult for men to be intimate.
It is easy to be mindless in America, because dreaming of and living for a better tomorrow is the American way. ... The problem is, in the second half of the twentieth century, we have gotten so good at living for tomorrow that most of us spend very little time in the present.
When you're used to getting just a piece of bread for a meal, you don't realize that you can ask for a plate of pasta. You have never seen a plate of pasta. You don't even know it exists. So, to ask for it is totally out of your reality. Hopefully, at some point, either someone shows you a plate of pasta, you read about it, or you hear about it enough so that it becomes real, and it's not just a fantasy anymore, and then you start thinking "Hey, I want that pasta."
when your field is architecture, you go visit the great cathedrals of the world. My field was relationships. I got married many times. I was practicing. I didn't date much; I just would get married. I thought, why waste time?
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