Real life is the life that’s in you, not your circumstances, like where you live or what job you have or who you’re in relationship with.

Some Christians feel guilty when they are doing something that isn’t ‚spiritual.‘ Somehow or another, they feel the need to hurry through the grocery store, dash through the house cleaning, and rush through all the daily aspects of life that seem irrelevant to their faith.

It’s not an easy course. It’s not designed to be. We’re not here to get you in touch with your inner child.

I’m not good at talking about myself.

The truth is, somebody is always talking about you, so you have to let it go… if it’s not a part of your God-given destiny.

Get up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can. Always stay near me, for tomorrow I will have much to do and more than I ever had, and tomorrow blood will leave my body above the breast.

I just really believe people have to get hungry. I think maybe what we need to do, instead of trying to stuff our beliefs down people’s throats, is just pray for them to really be hungry and to see their neediness.

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

Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.

Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.

I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others like me.

I was brought up to try to see what was wrong and right it. Since I am a writer, writing is how I right it.

By the time you’ve reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that is at least the beginning of wisdom.

The self is hateful.

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

I’m so happy I discovered early how wonderful music makes me feel.

Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.

Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

I am who I am and I say what I think. I’m not putting a face on for the record.

The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.

It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures – be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.

The single most powerful thing I can be is to be myself.

Until it’s on the radio or online, it’s not real. With U2, our album isn’t finished until it’s in the stores.

Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.

I never want to change so much that people can’t recognize me.

If you realize all the time what’s kind of wonderful – that is, if we expand our experience into wilder and wilder regions of experience – every once in a while, we have these integrations when everything’s pulled together into a unification, in which it turns out to be simpler than it looked before.

There’s a difference in thinking you are a champion and knowing that you are.

Adventure is not outside man; it is within.

Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can’t find.

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

You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

A lot of times, people feel that if they forgive the person who hurt them, then they will continue to take advantage of them or not take responsibility for what they did wrong.

Meditation is to be aware of every thought and of every feeling, never to say it is right or wrong, but just to watch it and move with it. In that watching, you begin to understand the whole movement of thought and feeling. And out of this awareness comes silence.

I’m my own worst critic, and if I don’t pull off what I think I wanted to do in my head, then I won’t be a happy girl.

Life is too short for long-term grudges.

I had never been in charge of anything. I’d always worked for someone. I worked for a furniture warehouse. I did masonry. I always had a boss yelling at me. So I’d never been in charge of an organization.

Adopt responsibility for your own well-being, try to put your family together, try to serve your community, try to seek for eternal truth… That’s the sort of thing that can ground you in your life, enough so that you can withstand the difficulty of life.

You must do the things you think you cannot do.

We all self-conscious. I’m just the first to admit it.

I always entertain the notion that I’m wrong, or that I’ll have to revise my opinion. Most of the time that feels good; sometimes it really hurts and is embarrassing.

Boys do cry, but I don’t think I shed a tear for a good chunk of my teenage years.

The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them.

My number one thing? Don’t overleverage yourself. Don’t say you can do something when you really can’t.

To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.

If I feel good about my parenting, I have no interest in judging other people’s choices. If I feel good about my body, I don’t go around making fun of other people’s weight or appearance. We’re hard on each other because we’re using each other as a launching pad out of our own perceived deficiency.

Learning to live for others isn’t something that just comes naturally to anybody. You have to train yourself to do it.

For me, ‚risky‘ is revealing what really happened in my life through music. Risky is writing confessional songs and telling the true story about a person with enough details so everyone knows who that person is.

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

The most peaceable way for you, if you do take a thief, is, to let him show himself what he is and steal out of your company.

A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.

If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.

We have a choice about how we take what happens to us in our life and whether or not we allow it to turn us. We can become consumed by hate and darkness, or we’re able to regain our humanity somehow, or come to terms with things and learn something about ourselves.

Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.

Happiness is within the reach of everyone, rich or poor. Yet comparatively few people are happy. I believe the reason for this is that the majority don’t recognize happiness even when it is within their grasp.

I don’t have any oratory skills. But I would not use them if I had.

I put Catholic guilt to work pretty good for a rich rock star.

‚They‘ is… stay away from them, please. There is so many different definitions of ‚they.‘ You might have a personal ‚they.‘ They against you; they want you broken and miserable. They don’t like winners; they don’t like people who’s blessed. So everybody’s got a different ‚they.‘

I want to put a ding in the universe.

No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.