Buddhism teaches us not to try to run away from suffering. You have to confront suffering. You have to look deeply into the nature of suffering in order to recognize its cause, the making of the suffering.

One of the most important decisions you’ll ever make is choosing the kind of universe you exist in: is it helpful and supportive or hostile and unsupportive? Your answer to this question will make all the difference in terms of how you live your life and what kind of Divine assistance you attract.

I’m not talent. Not considered ‚talent‘ by Lifetime. I’d like to say I’m their savior, but that would be cocky.

I did used to have nightmares about the idea that when I die, there is a spark of consciousness which basically creates the world. ‚Is the world going to disappear if this spark of consciousness disappears? And how do I know it won’t? How do I know there’s anything there except what I’m conscious of?‘

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

We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.

We are always getting ready to live but never living.

I feel you’re in charge of your own situation.

Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

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.

If it’s stress of things that we cannot control, what you have to do is you mitigate that stress as much as possible. You’ve planned, you’ve trained, you’ve done everything you can in your power to mitigate the stress that’s facing you. And then after that, there’s nothing you can do. So, you have to let that one go.

Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.

I get nervous when I don’t get nervous. If I’m nervous I know I’m going to have a good show.

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.

I’m almost like three people. There’s me the, Dolly, the person. There’s me, the star. And then there’s me, the manager.

Never take anything for granted.

The only shame is to have none.

Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality.

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.

If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.

If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.

The more a person seeks security, the more that person gives up control over their life.

Because in a split second, it’s gone.

If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.

Individuals need to be willing to face truth about their attitudes, behaviors, even what we want out of life.

The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.

I find with most of my readers are kind of like me, sort of people who were a little bit naive in life and then learned the hard way that this is what’s going on, the political games and most of my readers write to me telling me that the book helped them open their eyes to what other people are doing to them.

I pray while driving. I pray while working, and while relaxing.

I realize that many elements of the Buddhist teaching can be found in Christianity, Judaism, Islam. I think if Buddhism can help, it is the concrete methods of practice.

My thought is me: that is why I cannot stop thinking. I exist because I think I cannot keep from thinking.

Let us fill our hearts with our own compassion – towards ourselves and towards all living beings.

I always keep my guard up with guys and I guess that can get in the way sometimes. I can make them go through hell.

I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don’t hurt me, because it is me. If it was not me, if I was pretending to be someone else, then this could unbalance my world, but I know who I am.

I think I have always had a little humor.

I’ve realized that being happy is a choice. You never want to rub anybody the wrong way or not be fun to be around, but you have to be happy. When I get logical and I don’t trust my instincts – Thats when I get in trouble.

Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them.

There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.

I’m one of the world’s most self-conscious people. I really have to struggle.

Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.

God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.

I said I was ‚The Greatest,‘ I never said I was the smartest!

Showing off is the fool’s idea of glory.

By the time you’ve reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that is at least the beginning of wisdom.

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.

Find joy and solace in the simple, and cultivate your utopia by feeling the Tao in every cubic inch of space.

All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.

The difficult thing is that vulnerability is the first thing I look for in you and the last thing I’m willing to show you. In you, it’s courage and daring. In me, it’s weakness.

Don’t ever play yourself.

The only thing you ever have is now.

But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?

I don’t make people bend over backwards, and I don’t like that in people. I am definitely no diva.

Have the humility to learn from those around you.

To do nothing is also a good remedy.

Well, I don’t think there’s any need for people to focus on my career.

If you have the opportunity to play this game of life you need to appreciate every moment. A lot of people don’t appreciate the moment until it’s passed.

To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.

I think beating myself up sometimes and knowing I am not happy when I do it makes me work harder to do a good job.

It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.

I think my worst problem is actually living in the moment and understanding everything that’s going on. I feel like I’m in my own bubble.

First and foremost, we need to be the adults we want our children to be. We should watch our own gossiping and anger. We should model the kindness we want to see.