What comes out when life squeezes you? When someone hurts or offends you? If anger, pain and fear come out of you, it’s because that’s what’s inside.

Sometimes if you got a problem deep rooted in your life, it takes a little bit of time to overcome it in that area.

When I see myself as an old woman, I just think about being happy. And hopefully, I’ll still be fly.

Transforming yourself into a deep listener will not only prove more amusing as you open your mind to their mind, but you will gain the most invaluable lessons about human psychology.

The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.

To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself into a victim. When you speak out, you are in your power. So change the situation by taking action or by speaking out if necessary or possible; leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness.

I’m too busy acting like I’m not Naive. I’ve seen it all, I was here first.

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.

The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground.

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

Lots of songs aren’t even from my experiences, but they’re about accepting… the dark things about yourself.

The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

I realized, ‚Yo, I can’t do anything in moderation. I don’t know how.‘

I don’t tell people, ‚You’re okay the way that you are.‘ That’s not the right story. The right story is, ‚You’re way less than you could be.‘

My interest in life comes from setting myself huge, apparently unachievable challenges and trying to rise above them.

To become ‚unique,‘ the challenge is to fight the hardest battle which anyone can imagine until you reach your destination.

Forget the past.

The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.

Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.

Help others and give something back. I guarantee you will discover that while public service improves the lives and the world around you, its greatest reward is the enrichment and new meaning it will bring your own life.

If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.

I’m interested in the dream and subconscious mind, the peculiar dream-like quality of our lives, sometime nightmare quality of our lives.

I hate pain, despite my ability to tolerate it beyond all known parameters, which is not necessarily a good thing.

Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.

I grew up with the sea, and poverty for me was sumptuous; then I lost the sea and found all luxuries gray and poverty unbearable.

I’ve been careful in love. I’ve been careless in love. And I’ve had adventures I wouldn’t trade for anything.

There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

The only difference between me and a madman is that I’m not mad.

I don’t dabble and spend much mind or time dealing with, I don’t know, people’s perceptions of me. I truly don’t.

I want to work; then, as my kids get older, I want to have adventures. I want to visit all their countries: learn and live inside all their cultures.

My entire childhood was steeped in poverty. For me, poverty, in a way, was the first inspiration of my life, a commitment to do something for the poor.

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.

It’s a philosophy of life. A practice. If you do this, something will change, what will change is that you will change, your life will change, and if you can change you, you can perhaps change the world.

I believe that having a spiritual life is so important in everybody’s life.

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.

Adventure is not outside man; it is within.

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

I became a people-watcher when I lost all my friends when I was 12.

Before you try to keep up with the Joneses, be sure they’re not trying to keep up with you.

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

I think it’s a very good thing to leave your country and look at it from afar.

People may think I’m trying something new by telling stories, but they’re just jokes connected to give the illusion of stories. But really, I just continue using my imagination and creating. That’s what I do.

When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.

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

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

I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.

It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.

The best measure of a man’s honesty isn’t his income tax return. It’s the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.

We are all at times unconscious prophets.

Fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.

As a kid, I’d go into the bathroom when I was having a tantrum. I’d be in the bathroom crying, studying myself in the mirror. I was preparing for future roles.

It is impossible to underrate human intelligence – beginning with one’s own.

As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.

Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.

To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.

Especially for those of us who lived in single cells, you had the time to sit down and think, and we discovered that sitting down just to think is one of the best ways of keeping yourself fresh and able, to be able to address the problems facing you, and you had the opportunity, also, of examining your past.

It’s an offseason. These days are valuable for everybody.

Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.

Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear?

Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves.