Whenever you’re going through a tough time, generally, you become more compassionate, you become softer, you become more thoughtful, kinder. These are all spiritual qualities that will help you to align yourself with God and God consciousness rather than with a split fear-based consciousness.

I often advocate that we look at many sides of an issue, walk in someone else’s shoes, and identify and reject false choices.

I always say that people should not rush to change religions. There is real value in finding the spiritual resources you need in your home religion.

Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.

Let each become all that he was created capable of being.

In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.

The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc.

I feel the emotion that life conjures up and the songs I write get me closer to my feelings and realising who I am. It’s a natural process.

If you’re in trouble, or hurt or need – go to the poor people. They’re the only ones that’ll help – the only ones.

I feel real good because it’s about representing the young world and how to uplift each other and how to push us to be greater and make sure we don’t fall or get trapped or get in trouble, you know what I mean. Stay focused, you know what I mean.

To say that Christ is the term and motive force of evolution, to say that he manifests himself as ‚evolver,‘ is implicitly to recognize that he becomes attainable in and through the whole process of evolution.

Many Tibetans sacrifice their lives.

Quality is not an act, it is a habit.

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.

Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.

When we speak of faith – the faith that can move mountains – we are not speaking of faith in general but of faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.

We boil at different degrees.

In a universe that’s an intelligent system with a divine creative force supporting it, there simply can be no accidents. As tough as it is to acknowledge, you had to go through what you went through in order to get to where you are today, and the evidence is that you did.

In the child, consciousness rises out of the depths of unconscious psychic life, at first like separate islands, which gradually unite to form a ‚continent,‘ a continuous landmass of consciousness. Progressive mental development means, in effect, extension of consciousness.

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

I learned to fly a few years ago in England. It’s the only place I’m completely alone – up in the air, detached from everything.

With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation.

I am who I am today because of my mother.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

The dreams and passions stored within hearts are powerful keys which can unlock a wealth of potential.

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man’s life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.

So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.

Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.

I once wanted to prove myself by being a great actress. Now I want to prove that I’m a person. Then maybe I’ll be a great actress.

In my later years, I have looked in the mirror each day and found a happy person staring back. Occasionally I wonder why I can be so happy. The answer is that every day of my life I’ve worked only for myself and for the joy that comes from writing and creating. The image in my mirror is not optimistic, but the result of optimal behavior.

What you are comes to you.

Everything for me is sacred, beginning with earth, but also going to things made by man.

I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

Keep your nose out the sky, keep your heart to god, and keep your face to the raising sun.

To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.

Vanity is the healthiest thing in life.

My main goal is to be a self-made man and have control over what’s mine.

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

What you don’t do can be a destructive force.

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.

God created man, but I could do better.

Sometimes I feel like being an intellectual. Sometimes I like to just be aggressive and all the way in my feelings. Sometimes I might be emotional, or sometimes I might drag on the track and be lazy. I just like to share the different states of existence of Kevin Gates with the rest of the world.

I don’t think any country is perfect. It’s our responsibility to do the best we can do to change the things we don’t like. I think that’s part of social responsibility, and everybody is going to do that in their own way.

When I was younger, I felt pressure to become someone else once I became successful.

I walk every day, and I look at the mountains and the fields and the small city, and I say: ‚Oh my God, what a blessing.‘ Then you realise it’s important to put it in a context beyond this woman, this man, this city, this country, this universe.

I can’t tell anybody else how to run their life or their business, but I really believe I’ve got a good bead on myself.

I wish they would only take me as I am.

I’m almost like three people. There’s me the, Dolly, the person. There’s me, the star. And then there’s me, the manager.

I’m not critic-proof, and I still take it personally, but I take it less personally now.

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

When you hear people making hateful comments, stand up to them. Point out what a waste it is to hate, and you could open their eyes.

The confessional is not a torture chamber, but the place in which the Lord’s mercy motivates us to do better.

Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.

While musical experts of the world focus on what choir members can do, I would like to focus on what choir members can be.

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

Most of one’s life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

We all have done something unethical.