I’ve had a few semi-toxic relationships, but it’s not what I look for when I’m seeing someone.

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

I undertake the same project as Montaigne, but with an aim contrary to his own: for he wrote his Essays only for others, and I write my reveries only for myself.

I’m not trying to follow a set of rules and stuff. I’m just living my life.

We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It’s a death trap.

I can’t jump the highest. I’m obviously not the biggest, not the strongest.

A part of me has become immortal, out of my control.

To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.

In past generations, people would try to play younger than they really are. My trick is, I don’t try to play younger than I really am.

We are second-hand people. We have lived on what we have been told, either guided by our inclinations, our tendencies, or compelled to accept by circumstances and environment. We are the result of all kinds of influences, and there is nothing new in us, nothing that we have discovered for ourselves: nothing original, pristine, clear.

What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.

She never envisioned a legal career for me, but she did think it was very important that I be able to support myself, and I think she would be pleased to see what has become of me.

My experiences in life are getting bigger and better. The more stuff I do, the more stuff I talk about – having kids, traveling, going through relationship problems, dealing with things in my own family. All that stuff builds character.

I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.

There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

I was willing to accept what I couldn’t change.

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain – and most fools do.

When I was a youngster I lived with different families. I nearly always felt closer to the man of the house. Maybe because I always dreamed of having a father of my own.

Our necessities never equal our wants.

Most people want to avoid pain, and discipline is usually painful.

Everyone who wills can hear the inner voice. It is within everyone.

Life is too short for long-term grudges.

There’s certainly a side of me that isn’t completely… sane. Or completely ‚even‘ all the time. We all have our dark sides.

I’m very aware and very conscious of the path I chose in life, and very aware of the path I didn’t choose.

Love is an interesting thing. Perhaps I’ve never been in love before – I don’t really know? I think I have. I guess it’s subjective in that way.

For a long time I was scared I’d find out I was like my mother.

I am who I am today because of my mother.

I’m 31 now. I think I’m beginning to understand what life is, what romance is, and what a relationship means.

To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.

Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey ‚people.‘ People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war… Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.

When I first went to places where people were suffering from war and persecution, I felt ashamed of my feelings of sadness. I could see more possibilities in my life.

In the stillness of your presence, you can feel your own formless and timeless reality as the unmanifested life that animates your physical form. You can then feel the same life deep within every other human and every other creature. You look beyond the veil of form and separation. This is the realization of oneness. This is love.

When I was a kid, I had a tendency to criticize. But when I did, my mum would whisk me off to the bathroom to stand in front of a mirror. Ten minutes, never less. To think about how criticism is a poor reflection on the one who criticizes.

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.

My goal is to entertain myself and others.

On a given day, a given circumstance, you think you have a limit.

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

If you live only in one culture for the first 20 years of your life, you become conditioned without knowing it.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.

One mustn’t close one’s eyes to difficulty and to shortcomings; the more one recognizes them, the less they upset one.

I have learned to know God. I have recast my social belief… All my admirers are married; most of my friends are dead; and I stand with all the world before me, where to choose a path to make in it.

You’re not going to scare me into being somebody I don’t want to be.

Only the insecure strive for security.

Many people feel so pressured by the expectations of others that it causes them to be frustrated, miserable and confused about what they should do. But there is a way to live a simple, joy-filled, peaceful life, and the key is learning how to be led by the Holy Spirit, not the traditions or expectations of man.

We choose what attitudes we have right now. And it’s a continuing choice.

I don’t really get nervous that much, or if I do, only I know. It’s all inside me. I am good at hiding everything.

Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.

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.

Know your worth! People always act like they’re doing more for you than you’re doing for them.

Sometimes you need faith and victory spoken over your life. Words have created power. When you receive them into your spirit, they can ignite seeds of increase on the inside.

Can the mind see the truth of its own incapacity to know the unknown? Surely if I see very clearly that my mind cannot know the unknown, there is absolute quietness.

Returning to your family and where you came from, and your history… this is what makes you strong. It’s not looking out that’s going to do that – it’s looking in.

Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.

How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?

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.

There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life’s July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November.

If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven’t done anything today.

If you only believe that you’re an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that’s quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.

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

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.