I can handle pain.

Your life will be a blessed and balanced experience if you first honor your identity and priority.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.

How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?

As a young kid, I really wanted to be rich.

If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you.

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.

Don’t worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.

Think not that humility is weakness; it shall supply the marrow of strength to thy bones. Stoop and conquer; bow thyself and become invincible.

I heard that when Christina Aguilera went back to her prom, people, like, booed her. I can’t imagine going through that. If you know that’s going to happen, why put yourself in that situation? I’d rather play for 20,000 screaming people, you know?

People may think I’m trying something new by telling stories, but they’re just jokes connected to give the illusion of stories. But really, I just continue using my imagination and creating. That’s what I do.

The art of being a slave is to rule one’s master.

I’m concerned that my technical skills have advanced to the point where I can get closer to what I’m aiming for, which is not such a good thing.

When you begin to worry, go find something to do. Get busy being a blessing to someone; do something fruitful. Talking about your problem or sitting alone, thinking about it, does no good; it serves only to make you miserable. Above all else, remember that worrying is totally useless. Worrying will not solve your problem.

In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.

You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

When things are really dismal, you can laugh, or you can cave in completely.

Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.

The idea of going to school and getting a job is the most destructive one in your brain.

If I’d had good discipline, I might have gone into music.

One mustn’t close one’s eyes to difficulty and to shortcomings; the more one recognizes them, the less they upset one.

In retrospect, I can see I couldn’t talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and squealing and twitching about. Ha! Like, that sure made sense!

Discontent, blaming, complaining, self-pity cannot serve as a foundation for a good future, no matter how much effort you make.

What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.

I’ve always believed in God. I also think that’s the sort of thing that either comes as part of the equipment, the capacity to believe, or at some point in your life, when you’re in a position where you actually need help from a power greater than yourself, you simply make an agreement.

I owe my solitude to other people.

I don’t want to make money; I want to make a difference.

I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

I’m not afraid to look like an idiot.

Life is a series of commas, not periods.

You’re not going to scare me into being somebody I don’t want to be.

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

And, honestly, if somebody wants to criticize me for not being a trainwreck, that’s fine with me!

He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.

I don’t feel too much pressure. I only see an opportunity.

I like pushing boundaries.

Any experience that touches you, in any particular way, is good. It can be a horrible experience.

People make jokes about my bosoms, why don’t they look underneath the breasts at the heart? It’s obvious I’ve got big ones and if people want to assume they’re not mine, then let them.

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.

I put Catholic guilt to work pretty good for a rich rock star.

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.

I disagree with everything I used to say.

I was married a few times, and one of my husbands was jealous of me writing.

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

Time is kind of an amazing thing because you can do so much with it. I think people underestimate time… I don’t want to just sit on my phone for hours.

My message isn’t perfectly defined. I have, as a human being, fallen to peer pressure.

It’s better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone – so far.

I think that when we know that we actually do live in uncertainty, then we ought to admit it; it is of great value to realize that we do not know the answers to different questions. This attitude of mind – this attitude of uncertainty – is vital to the scientist, and it is this attitude of mind which the student must first acquire.

One’s philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes… and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.

Your timeless self does not age and has no fear of the future. Contemplate your physical self and all its possessions, and practice laughing peacefully at it all.

The mind is everything. What you think you become.

Those of us who submitted or surrendered our ideas and dreams and identities to the ‚leaders‘ must take back our rights, our identities, our responsibilities.

As a vulnerability researcher, the greatest barrier I see is our low tolerance for vulnerability. We’re almost afraid to be happy. We feel like it’s inviting disaster.

Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.

However happy people say they are, nobody is satisfied: we always have to be with the prettiest woman, buy a bigger house, change cars, desire what we do not have.

I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.

I’m here. I’m not going anywhere. No matter what the injury – unless it’s completely debilitating – I’m going to be the same player I’ve always been. I’ll figure it out. I’ll make some tweaks, some changes, but I’m still coming.

Now, you lose something in your life, or you come into a conflict, and there’s gonna come a time that you’re gonna know: There was a reason for that. And at the end of your life, all the things you thought were periods, they turn out to be commas. There was never a full stop in any of it.

When you seek the presence of your creative Spirit and are filled with passion about virtually everything you undertake, you’ll successfully remove the roadblocks from your life and enjoy the active presence of Spirit.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.