If you have the ability to pick yourself up by the bootstraps and start over, you come out stronger because you learn from whatever mistakes you made.

When people are very damaged, they can often meet the world with a kind of defiance.

Any experience that touches you, in any particular way, is good. It can be a horrible experience.

Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.

If a man does his best, what else is there?

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.

I can understand how some people might resent me for having the audacity to continue playing music, but it’d take a lot more than that to stop me from doing it. I started Foo Fighters because I didn’t want to retreat.

I know that when I pray, something wonderful happens. Not just to the person or persons for whom I’m praying, but also something wonderful happens to me. I’m grateful that I’m heard.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

There are a lot of things I never did, because I believe in watching those true Hollywood stories and I see how easy it is to lose track of your life.

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.

I don’t think I’m such an amazing person who needs to be written about.

Nothing’s ever easy as long as you go on living.

Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.

The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc.

I woke up one day and thought: ‚I want to write a book about the history of my body.‘ I could justify talking about my mother because it was in her body that my body began.

I set records that will never be equaled. In fact, I hope 90% of them don’t even get printed.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.

Take the complications, rules, shoulds, musts, have tos, and so on out of your life. By uncomplicating your life and removing the trivial pursuits that occupy so much of it, you open a channel for the genius within you to emerge.

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

I fear that there are too many priesthood bearers who have done little or nothing to develop their ability to access the powers of Heaven.

Don’t bring your need to the marketplace, bring your skill. If you don’t feel well, tell your doctor, but not the marketplace. If you need money, go to the bank, but not the marketplace.

Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.

Forgiveness is not a feeling – it’s a decision we make because we want to do what’s right before God. It’s a quality decision that won’t be easy and it may take time to get through the process, depending on the severity of the offense.

If there is only one thing in my life that I am proud of, it’s that I’ve never been a kept woman.

Wanting to feel good is synonymous with wanting to feel God.

Narrow your life down to this moment. Your life situation may be full of problems – most life situations are – but find out if you have a problem at this moment. Do you have a problem now?

It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn’t get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man.

I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.

Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.

I don’t have emotional needs, only physical ones.

The key is taking responsibility and initiative, deciding what your life is about and prioritizing your life around the most important things.

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.

Nobody likes to fail. I want to succeed in everything I do, which isn’t much. But the things that I’m really passionate about, if I fail at those, if I’m not successful, what do I have?

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.

What is common sense isn’t common practice.

You have people come into your life shockingly and surprisingly. You have losses that you never thought you’d experience. You have rejection and you have learn how to deal with that and how to get up the next day and go on with it.

I will seize fate by the throat; it shall certainly never wholly overcome me.

I worked with someone who told me they’d never like me. But for some reason, I just felt like I needed her approval. So I started changing myself to please her. It made me stop being social and friendly. I was so unhappy.

I love being busy.

Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.

The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.

Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.

A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.

Whenever I write a novel, I have a strong sense that I am doing something I was unable to do before. With each new work, I move up a step and discover something new inside me.

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

‚Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.

Never marry someone in hope that they’ll change later.

People tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. So the mind then becomes obsessed with negative things, with judgments, guilt and anxiety produced by thoughts about the future and so on.

Yeah, I was a delinquent. It was when I was in the ninth grade. I was doing stupid stuff, and the cops came into the class. I was humiliated more than anything.

I’m much healthier now.

He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.