You need to understand what works best for your own body.

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

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.

Control and surrender have to be kept in balance. That’s what surfers do – take control of the situation, then be carried, then take control. In the last few thousand years, we’ve become incredibly adept technically. We’ve treasured the controlling part of ourselves and neglected the surrendering part.

Power does not change you, it unmasks you.

Listening to and understanding our inner sufferings will resolve most of the problems we encounter.

One of my big goals as a human being is to continue to write what’s really happening to me, even if it’s a tough pill to swallow for people around me… I do fear that if I ever were to have someone in my life who mattered, I would second-guess every one of my lyrics.

What you are comes to you.

We’re so trendy we can’t even escape ourselves.

Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.

I am not very good with relationships. With anyone. I can’t be locked up with anyone for too long.

How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.

Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.

Breathe in deeply to bring your mind home to your body. Then look at, or think of, the person triggering this emotion: With mindfulness, you can see that she is unhappy, that she is suffering. You can see her wrong perceptions. You can see that she is not beautiful when she says things that are unkind.

The self is hateful.

My future is righteousness.

To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.

In the beginning, I was very insecure. I hated how I looked in pictures.

Vulnerability is basically uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure.

If you’re going to spend two years of your life on something, it has to matter to you; you have to be passionate about it.

There’s no substitute for the practice of meditation.

In order to heal others, we first need to heal ourselves. And to heal ourselves, we need to know how to deal with ourselves.

My weak spot is laziness. Oh, I have a lot of weak spots: cookies, croissants.

Whatever good things we build end up building us.

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

These things bring you to reality as to how fragile you are; at the same moment you are doing something that nobody else is able to do. The same moment that you are seen as the best, the fastest and somebody that cannot be touched, you are enormously fragile.

Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.

Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.

For some reason I did something where I realized I could get a reaction. That was when I broke out of my shell at school, because I really didn’t have any friends or anything like that and I just kind of was going along, and then finally I did this zany thing, and all of a sudden I had tons of friends.

You can either be a host to God, or a hostage to your ego. It’s your call.

A woman knows by intuition, or instinct, what is best for herself.

Live one day at a time emphasizing ethics rather than rules.

I like to be in control of how I look and how I feel and how I act.

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.

I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more.

The most important thing I can tell you about aging is this: If you really feel that you want to have an off-the-shoulder blouse and some big beads and thong sandals and a dirndl skirt and a magnolia in your hair, do it. Even if you’re wrinkled.

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.

If you realize all the time what’s kind of wonderful – that is, if we expand our experience into wilder and wilder regions of experience – every once in a while, we have these integrations when everything’s pulled together into a unification, in which it turns out to be simpler than it looked before.

The truth is something that burns. It burns off dead wood. And people don’t like having the dead wood burnt off, often because they’re 95 percent dead wood.

I do believe in the old saying, ‚What does not kill you makes you stronger.‘ Our experiences, good and bad, make us who we are. By overcoming difficulties, we gain strength and maturity.

Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.

No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.

We all get weary sometimes, and we tend to think that life is what makes us weary.

I know, to banish anger altogether from one’s breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God’s grace.

Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked: as I never was when I was not one.

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.

You’ll never do a whole lot unless you’re brave enough to try.

The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

A child wants things to be a certain way. When you get to be an adult, you just understand that some people are good, some are not, and you can’t be naive.

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.

I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.

The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.

You’ve got to learn to survive a defeat. That’s when you develop character.

It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.

I was so rude when I was a little girl.

Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

People suffer because they are caught in their views. As soon as we release those views, we are free and we don’t suffer anymore.

Without being the most confident person in the world, I think I am the right person for Liverpool.

When I was in college I did a lot of stupid things and I don’t want to make an excuse for that. Some of the things that people accuse me of are true, some of them aren’t. There are pranks, IMs.