What you are comes to you.

I’m working at trying to be a Christian, and that’s serious business. It’s like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a good Buddhist, a good Shintoist, a good Zoroastrian, a good friend, a good lover, a good mother, a good buddy – it’s serious business.

Breathing in, I am aware of my heart. Breathing out, I smile to my heart and know that my heart still functions normally. I feel grateful for my heart.

Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can’t expect an angel to look out.

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.

In the fight between you and the world, back the world.

I have never given adoration to any body except myself.

In all affairs it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.

I’m not a person who defends myself very often. I kind of let my actions speak for me.

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

You are the universe, you aren’t in the universe.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

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.

I’m all about evolution. I’m the first person to judge myself.

When I was a child, I was very poor and wanted everything. So when I got money, I began buying things.

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.

I have a dogmatic certainty: God is in every person’s life. God is in everyone’s life. Even if the life of a person has been a disaster, even if it is destroyed by vices, drugs or anything else – God is in this person’s life. You can – you must – try to seek God in every human life.

When I was younger, I felt pressure to become someone else once I became successful.

If you listen through the screen of your desires, then you obviously listen to your own voice; you are listening to your own desires.

Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.

I had my moments of being humiliated, and then I had moments of doing something humiliating. I’m glad I lived out both roles.

There are so many emotions that you’re feeling, you can get stifled by them if you’re feeling them all at once. What I try to do is take one moment – one simple, simple feeling – and expand it into three-and-a-half minutes.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.

I don’t dabble and spend much mind or time dealing with, I don’t know, people’s perceptions of me. I truly don’t.

A shady business never yields a sunny life.

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.

Remembering what you’ve been through and how that has strengthened your mindset can lift you out of a negative brain loop and help you bypass those weak, one-second impulses to give in. Even if you’re feeling low and beat down by life right now, I guarantee you can think of a time or two when you overcame odds and tasted success.

Things won’t get better dwelling on the past. Accept what has happened. Then move forward.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Many a man’s reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.

Every time you think the problem is ‚out there,‘ that very thought is the problem.

One of the things I realized is that if you do not take control over your time and your life, other people will gobble it up. If you don’t prioritize yourself, you constantly start falling lower and lower on your list, your kids fall lower and lower on your list.

Peace in the world starts with peace in oneself. If everyone lives mindfully, everyone will be more healthy, feel more fulfilled in their daily lives and there will be more peace.

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

When you face a ‚performance‘ that might provoke the ‚I’m scared‘ response, choose love and approach your opportunity as a chance to dance with God. It’s more fun than ‚Dancing with the Stars!‘

I don’t like it when people who are young act like they’re 40. That’s taking too much on. Putting up a shield and trying to act like you’re so mature or whatever – I don’t try to act mature. Some people might say I’m mature for my age, but it’s not something I’m trying to do, you know? I’m just me.

Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

Everything is an open book. I don’t speak on other people’s hardship, but if it happened in my life or something that has been an experience on my particular journey, I’m going to talk about it. That’s what my fan base appreciates the most. I’m universal. You can relate to the things I say or that I go through.

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

All of us knows, not what is expedient, not what is going to make us popular, not what the policy is, or the company policy – but in truth each of us knows what is the right thing to do. And that’s how I am guided.

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

The people who truly know me know what I’m like. There have been people who try to say things that aren’t fair, and I check them. And then they don’t like me because I checked them.

I’ve never responded well to entrenched negative thinking.

Don’t let the incidents which take place in life bring you low. And certainly don’t whine. You can be brought low, that’s OK, but don’t be reduced by them. Just say, ‚That’s life.‘

I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up – they have no holidays.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.

One of the huge imbalances in life is the disparity between your daily existence, with its routines and habits, and the dream you have within yourself of some extraordinarily satisfying way of living.

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend – or a meaningful day.

Character is power.

Fear is stupid. So are regrets.

The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind.

The thing about the truth is, not a lot of people can handle it.

Dogmas are collective conceptual prisons. And the strange thing is that people love their prison cells because they give them a sense of security and a false sense of ‚I know.‘ Nothing has inflicted more suffering on humanity than its dogmas.

I think everybody’s trying to get to a place in themselves where they conquer what they was afraid of; they achieve some of their life goals, kept their word about what they were trying to do.

It didn’t even occur to me that I’m the last person in the world who should play salsa or Brazilian music.