Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another.
We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but by the love we're not extending in the present.
If you don't see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner.
Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.
The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.
Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.
You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?
Experience life in all possible ways -- good-bad, bitter-sweet, dark-light, summer-winter. Experience all the dualities. Don't be afraid of experience, because the more experience you have, the more mature you become.
Happiness is the settling of the soul into its most appropriate spot.
I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.
The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.
There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.
No medicine cures what happiness cannot.
Not being tense but ready. Not thinking but not dreaming. Not being set but flexible. Liberation from the uneasy sense of confinement. It is being wholly and quietly alive, aware and alert, ready for whatever may come.
I believe the choice to be excellent begins with aligning your thoughts and words with the intention to require more from yourself.
To control the mind with force is like putting a viper in a basket.
Every day you have the opportunity to learn and experience some-thing and some-one new. Seize the opportunity. Learn and experience everything you can, and use it to change the world.
If we own the story then we can write the ending.
Do you light up when your kids are coming in the room or do you become the instant critic?
You may say i'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one
People will call you anything. It's up to you either to pick up the phone or not.
Talk to yourself like you would to someone you love.
On the field of The Self stand a knight and a dragon. You are the knight. Resistance is the dragon.
Knowledge is important, but only if we're being kind and gentle with ourselves as we work to discover who we are.
If I have given my all and still do not win, I haven't lost. Others might remember winning or losing; I remember the journey.
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