We all have two lives: an inner life and an outer life. Your inner life is your soul life, which includes your mind, will and emotions. Your outer life is your physical life. And while God cares about every detail of your life, He is more concerned with your inner life than your outer life.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman.

As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

I always try to put a seed of hope into people’s hearts. I’m not there to teach them doctrine necessarily, but to let them know that God is a good God, and has a plan for their lives. Hopefully, that will restore their faith, or draw them into faith.

If one has the answers to all the questions – that is the proof that God is not with him. It means that he is a false prophet using religion for himself. The great leaders of the people of God, like Moses, have always left room for doubt. You must leave room for the Lord, not for our certainties; we must be humble.

Ain’t nothing like a good cry.

In order to heal others, we first need to heal ourselves. And to heal ourselves, we need to know how to deal with ourselves.

I want to solidify as an artist and show that as I grow as a person and make mistakes and learn from them, I’m going to grow artistically.

I don’t know, I feel desperate when I sing. And I look desperate – it feels like I’m singing for my life, which makes me twitch, if that makes sense.

The one thing that I keep learning over and over again is that I don’t know nothing. I mean, that’s my life lesson.

You’re just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You’ve got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It’s all down to you, mate.

The soul never thinks without a picture.

One’s own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one’s Maker and no one else’s.

In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit.

Why should it be essential to love rarely in order to love much?

Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

A woman has the age she deserves.

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Before God we are all equally wise – and equally foolish.

I don’t do things for the response or for the controversy. I just live my life.

My father always taught me that when you help other people, then God will give you double. And that’s what has really happened to me. When I have helped other people who are in need, God has helped me more.

One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.

It was my delusion and naivety that brought me here.

As soon as I hear a sound, it always suggests a mood to me.

Why go through life if you’re not going to challenge yourself?

The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

When I was a child, I was very poor and wanted everything. So when I got money, I began buying things.

Someone told me something that stuck with me: ‚You have to envision your life, and then go backwards.‘ I’ve been living by that motto for a while, so I see where I need to be. Now I’m just backtracking and trying to get back up there.

A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there’s less of you.

Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not ‚yours,‘ not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you.

Although I’m only fourteen, I know quite well what I want. I know who is right and who is wrong. I have my opinions, my own ideas and principles, and although it may sound pretty mad from an adolescent, I feel more of a person than a child. I feel quite independent of anyone.

Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.

Humble people ask for help.

The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.

I was not an anthropology student prior to the war. I took it up as part of a personal readjustment following some bewildering experiences as an infantryman and later as a prisoner of war in Dresden, Germany. The science of the Study of Man has been extremely satisfactory from that personal standpoint.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.

The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.

The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.

I hope not to define myself by suffering.

If you know me, and you call me Stefani, you don’t really know me at all.

Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth; help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.

What a terrible thing to have lost one’s mind. Or not to have a mind at all. How true that is.

I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.

There are going to be things I’m not going to be great at, times when I make mistakes, 100%.

We will be more successful in all our endeavors if we can let go of the habit of running all the time, and take little pauses to relax and re-center ourselves. And we’ll also have a lot more joy in living.

I came up from a difficult background.

Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture.

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.

Questioning my spiritual life has always been germane to what I was writing. Always. It’s because I’m not quite an atheist and it worries me. There’s that little bit that holds on: ‚Well, I’m almost an atheist. Give me a couple of months.‘

When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you.

We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay – and rise!

Occasionally, some brother sings very earnestly through his nose, often disturbing those around him, but it does not matter how the voice sounds to the ears of man. What is important is how the heart sounds to the ears of God.

Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.

Music fills in for words a lot of the time when people don’t know what to say, and I think music can be more eloquent than words.

The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt.

There is a boundary to men’s passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.

I am a simple Buddhist monk – no more, no less.