I used to let other people’s struggles affect my happiness. If they weren’t happy, there was no way I was going to be happy. The opposite was also true: If I wasn’t happy, I didn’t want anyone around me to be happy.

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

Part of me suspects that I’m a loser, and the other part of me thinks I’m God Almighty.

A saint is tolerant and is attentive to the pleadings of other human beings, not only to spoken messages but to unspoken messages as well.

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

To add value to others, one must first value others.

I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me.

You must do the things you think you cannot do.

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

Even when a person has all of life’s comforts – good food, good shelter, a companion – he or she can still become unhappy when encountering a tragic situation.

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.

Having a mind that is open to everything and attached to nothing seems to me to be one of the most basic principles that you can adopt to contribute to individual and world peace.

I more fear what is within me than what comes from without.

Being at ease with not knowing is crucial for answers to come to you.

I’m interested in women’s health because I’m a woman. I’d be a darn fool not to be on my own side.

If you don’t live your life, then who will?

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

I remember, when I was a young guy in the SEAL teams, I was very afraid of making mistakes and looking stupid or doing dumb things and getting a bad reputation.

I don’t think a lot of people know personally who I am.

I know what I believe, I know what I want to do, and I’m just comfortable saying it, and laying it out there.

I am trying to find myself. Sometimes that’s not easy.

I’m tender on the inside.

The more I grow in popularity, the lonelier it gets. Because you don’t really know me. You just know this part of me. You fell in love with that. But it’s way more intricate than what meets the surface.

If you have the chance to be exposed to a loving, understanding environment where the seed of compassion, loving kindness, can be watered every day, then you become a more loving person.

This world of ours… must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

It’s certainly not wrong to want to be a better person. God gave us that desire.

Having a bunch of cats around is good. If you’re feeling bad, you just look at the cats, you’ll feel better because they know that everything is just as it is. There’s nothing to get excited about. They just know. They’re saviours.

Always fall in with what you’re asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever’s going. Not against: with.

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

I may be no better, but at least I am different.

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.

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

I can handle pain.

I’m a spokesman for myself. It just so happens that there’s a bunch of people that are concerned with what I have to say. I find that frightening at times because I’m just as confused as most people. I don’t have the answers for anything.

I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.

I talk to myself all the time. Just make sure you answer.

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

I am, as a character, at times, a little overbearing. I recognize that.

Hope is favorable and confident expectation; it’s an expectant attitude that something good is going to happen and things will work out, no matter what situation we’re facing.

If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development.

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.

What’s really hard is that you could care a lot for someone and not want to live with him anymore.

Sometimes, women in families put themselves last until it manifests itself in their own health.

I think I’ve got wiser.

Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.

Our words will either bring life and victory or death and destruction. If we want to be happy, we have to be serious about speaking words of life that line up with God’s Word.

I am not the humblest person in the world. I admit that.

It makes me sad when I find sisters who aren’t joyful. They might smile, but with just a smile they could be flight attendants!

A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.

I don’t tell people, ‚You’re okay the way that you are.‘ That’s not the right story. The right story is, ‚You’re way less than you could be.‘

Maybe other people will try to limit me but I don’t limit myself.

No, I’m not anguished and tormented.

If I am no longer disturbed myself, I will deal less with disturbed people, but I don’t regret having concerned myself with them because I think most of us are disturbed.