The more you seek the uncomfortable, the more you will become comfortable.

Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.

Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.

If you want to be a voice for peace in the world, begin by making peace a permanent condition of your own life.

I’m just going to say it: I’m pro-guilt. Guilt is good. Guilt helps us stay on track because it’s about our behavior. It occurs when we compare something we’ve done – or failed to do – with our personal values.

If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?

I want to do a certain thing in the world, and I am going to do it with unwavering concentration. I am concerning myself with only one essential thing: to set man free. I desire to free him from all cages, from all fears, and not to found religions, new sects, nor to establish new theories and new philosophies.

No matter what your mission is, have some notion in your head. Forget the model, whether it’s government or nonprofit or profit. Ask yourself the more important question: Is my mission improving the world? Are you sure about it? Seek to disconfirm that all the time. And if you can, change your mission.

What you are comes to you.

We’re all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.

I always wonder when it was that I was embraced.

I believe time wounds all heels.

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.

I’m so nervous. I’ve always been nervous, ever since I was a kid.

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.

When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.

One of the things I did when I discovered this huge importance of being vulnerable is very happily moved away from the shame research, because that’s such a downer, and people hate that topic. It’s not that vulnerability is the upside, but it’s better than shame, I guess.

A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man.

We clearly see in God’s Word that anything He tells us to do, He will give us the ability to do it. But do we really believe it? Do we want to believe it? It’s easier to come up with excuses for why we can’t do things that are hard or that we really don’t want to do.

Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.

We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle.

No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.

I know I’m a good professional, I know that no one’s harder on me than myself and that’s never going to change, under any circumstances.

People have so many hang-ups about how other people live their lives. People always want to keep you in a little box, or they need to label you and fix you in time and location.

The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.

If you’re afraid to fail, then you’re probably going to fail.

I wasn’t that great a chef, and I don’t think I’m that great a writer.

It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.

Let go of yesterday.

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

I have learned to know God. I have recast my social belief… All my admirers are married; most of my friends are dead; and I stand with all the world before me, where to choose a path to make in it.

Modesty is a learned affectation. And as soon as life slams the modest person against the wall, that modesty drops.

I think the worst part about a breakup sometimes, if one could choose a worst part, would possibly be if you get out of a relationship, and you don’t recognize yourself because you changed a lot about you.

My children came out as individuals in their own right. They were not my products. They had their own characters and were very strong-minded. I gave them a lot of freedom when they were still very young. The one thing they got from me is morals. They would never betray anyone. They are really good people.

You should never give up your inner self.

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Guarding your heart and protecting your dignity are a little bit more important than clarifying the emotions of someone who’s only texting you back three words. I’ve learned that from trying to figure out people who don’t deserve to be figured out.

I’ve experienced great things, I’ve experienced great tragedies. I’ve done almost everything I could possibly ever imagine doing, but I just know that there’s more.

There is such a thing as old emotional pain living inside you. It is an accumulation of painful life experience that was not fully faced and accepted in the moment it arose. It leaves behind an energy form of emotional pain.

Learning to live for others isn’t something that just comes naturally to anybody. You have to train yourself to do it.

Whatever one of us blames in another, each one will find in his own heart.

I could not do what I do, and teach a class, and never miss a deadline, never be late for anything if I was a lush, OK? I would really love to read a piece that said, ‚He is not a lush.‘ That would be fabulous, it would be a first, I could show it to people and say, ‚Look!‘

Whatever you are, be a good one.

I had a lovers quarrel with the world.

Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits.

Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.

If I went back to my 20-year-old self, what I would tell my 20-year-old self is, ‚You don’t know anything.‘ Because everyone, when they’re young, they think they know what’s going on in the world, and you don’t.

Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.

And we are never too old to study the Bible. Each time the lessons are studied comes some new meaning, some new thought which will make us better.

Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.

Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.

Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, seek to be worthy of being known.

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.

Sexuality is one of the ways that we become enlightened, actually, because it leads us to self-knowledge.

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

I didn’t want to be a fashion designer, and for a good half of my career I didn’t like it. I always wanted to do other things.

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.

When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.

We all have two lives: an inner life and an outer life. Your inner life is your soul life, which includes your mind, will and emotions. Your outer life is your physical life. And while God cares about every detail of your life, He is more concerned with your inner life than your outer life.

When you realize who you live for, and who’s important to please, a lot of people will actually start living. I am never going to get caught up in that. I’m gonna look back on my life and say that I enjoyed it – and I lived it for me.