Don’t feel sorry for me.

Love always ends differently and it always begins differently – especially with me.

I am not handsome or sexy. Of course, it’s not like I am hopeless.

People who truly understand what is meant by self-reliance know they must live their lives by ethics rather than rules.

I always wanted a family.

Not everyone loves me, but I have to be okay no matter what they think about me.

What I love best in life is new starts.

We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence… on pain of liquidation.

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Let each know that for each the body, the mind and the soul have been freed to fulfill themselves.

It’s so easy to settle for less than God’s best for us because we don’t always feel like taking responsibility for our behavior or putting forth some effort to do what we need to do so we can accomplish great things for God and help people. But the cost of settling for less is actually harder than being completely obedient to God’s will.

Avoid popularity if you would have peace.

I am God’s vessel. But my greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live.

We are continually shaped by the forces of coincidence.

It’s normal for human beings to identify with their own separate self. The problem is that we get caught in that notion of ourself as a separate individual and caught in that individual self’s agenda.

I still have mixed feelings about what growing up is – this thing that happens to everyone, so I’ve heard.

I still consider it a summer job, though. So, I try to maintain that summer job as long as I can. But it’s exciting to be able to have the opportunity to do things I always dreamed of as a kid.

Therapy? I don’t need that. The roles that I choose are my therapy.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else – means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

We are always getting ready to live but never living.

Words are powerful; if you change your words, you can change your life.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Getting money is not all a man’s business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.

Isn’t it funny how babies laugh a lot? I read a toddler, a young child laughs 300 times a day. The average adult laughs, like, four times a day. God put it in them. He put the laugh in us, but I think sometimes we let life get us down, you know, have bad breaks, and we lose our breaks.

Growing up in the place I did I never was aware of any other option but to question everything.

I learned to fly a few years ago in England. It’s the only place I’m completely alone – up in the air, detached from everything.

I’ve 20,000 hours of clinical practice; you’re not naive after the first few thousand. I’ve helped people deal with things that most people can’t imagine.

Ambition has become a dirty word, and I believe it is a great evolutionary force for the positive. If people fail or go astray in their ambition I can live with it but not with people lowering their expectations, wasting time, slacking off and glorifying failure and stupidity.

I think, for years, people have been pushed down by religion, and I don’t say that disrespectfully, but they’ve been shown a God that you can’t measure up to.

When your higher self is present, it always promotes peace.

For me, I used to be shy towards journalism because it wasn’t poetry. And then I realized that the events that I covered in essays that became journalism were actually great because they inspired me, and they became my muse.

Some days I totally appreciate everything that’s happening to me, and some days I feel everyone’s waiting for me to mess up.

Find out who you are. And do it on purpose.

It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.

Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.

Sometimes I feel like being an intellectual. Sometimes I like to just be aggressive and all the way in my feelings. Sometimes I might be emotional, or sometimes I might drag on the track and be lazy. I just like to share the different states of existence of Kevin Gates with the rest of the world.

Fear is stupid. So are regrets.

I don’t want to be alone, I want to be left alone.

I was inspired to spend an entire year – my 65th year – reading, researching, and meditating on Lao-tzu’s messages, practicing them and ultimately writing down these insights as I felt Lao-tzu wanted us to know them.

I don’t think human beings learn anything without desperation. Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.

I do not live on false promises. I cannot afford to live on bad advice.

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‚I’m possible‘!

I am sure there’s going to be times when I do things wrong that no one’s going to like and everyone’s going to think I’m terrible and rubbish but I know I’m going to go through those times, and it’s just about understanding that that’s going to happen.

One cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.

You don’t look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.

There’s a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.

Vulnerability is not weakness. And that myth is profoundly dangerous.

The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized – never knowing.

Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future.

The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.

I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.

I’ve done many ads because that’s my new career. It’s an inspiring extension for my mind.

It is only a man’s own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else’s meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.

There’s definitely going to be things that I’m not very good at, things I can improve.

That is the real spiritual awakening, when something emerges from within you that is deeper than who you thought you were. So, the person is still there, but one could almost say that something more powerful shines through the person.