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

How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.

To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself: First, what could I do? Second, what could I read? And third, who could I ask?

Don’t ever play yourself.

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.

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

I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.

As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.

I vividly remember a conversation I had many years ago in 1974, which marked a turning point in my leadership journey. I was sitting at a Holiday Inn with my friend, Kurt Campmeyer, when he asked me if I had a personal growth plan. I didn’t. In fact, I didn’t even know you were supposed to have one.

I’m addicted to placebos.

Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

Whatever is making you so angry, it’s time for you to give it to God and get over it.

I’ve never professed to be anything but an average student.

If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.

A daily portion is really all we need. We do not need tomorrow’s supply, for that day has not yet dawned, and its needs are still unborn.

I am not saying I am the best manager in the world. But I’m quite good.

Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.

My ‚fear‘ is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

Don’t talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.

You have to like the present; if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future.

I am a little too absorbed by science to be able to philosophise much; but the more I look into myself, the more I find myself possessed by the conviction that it is only the science of Christ running through all things, that is to say true mystical science, that really matters. I let myself get caught up in the game when I geologise.

No one has the right to be sorry for himself for a misfortune that strikes everyone.

Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

You get one life. I’m going to embrace mine.

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

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

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

And above all things, never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

It is important for you to know who you are and who you may become. It is more important than what you do, even as vital as your work is and will be.

There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.

If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people’s opinions will rush in from all quarters.

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.

There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day.

Why don’t you start believing that no matter what you have or haven’t done, that your best days are still out in front of you.

The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one’s key to the experience of others.

When you have to make a choice and don’t make it, that is in itself a choice.

Brad was a huge surprise to me. I think we were both the last two people who were looking for a relationship. I certainly wasn’t. I was quite content to be a single mom with Mad.

I think I am smart unless I am really, really in love, and then I am ridiculously stupid.

The older you get, the better you get.

Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.

Oh, I’ve always been very… Emotional. ‚Hypersensitive‘ is what they call it, I think.

The big question about how people behave is whether they’ve got an Inner Scorecard or an Outer Scorecard. It helps if you can be satisfied with an Inner Scorecard.

Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone, and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom, for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.

I can imagine it’s hard to make a relationship last. I wouldn’t know.

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

As I followed my dream – stayed in-Spirit, that is, inspired – I made more money in the first year after I gave up my employment than I had made in the previous 35 years of my life.

A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.

I was born with a great gift, and sometimes with that comes a destructive streak.

The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.

One of my proudest moments is I didn’t sell my soul for the sake of popularity.

I am not a particularly thick-skinned person.

It’s still scary every time I go back to the past. Each morning, my heart catches. When I get there, I remember how the light was, where the draft was coming from, what odors were in the air. When I write, I get all the weeping out.

When you seek the presence of your creative Spirit and are filled with passion about virtually everything you undertake, you’ll successfully remove the roadblocks from your life and enjoy the active presence of Spirit.

I think the worst part about a breakup sometimes, if one could choose a worst part, would possibly be if you get out of a relationship, and you don’t recognize yourself because you changed a lot about you.

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

Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.