Acceptance is the act of embracing what life presents to you with a good attitude.

Extraordinary people visualize not what is possible or probable, but rather what is impossible. And by visualizing the impossible, they begin to see it as possible.

Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.

Remember there are no mistakes, only lessons. Love yourself, trust your choices, and everything is possible

Once you become aware of what stands in your way and become willing to release it, you signal the universe that you are ready to manifest the life you were meant to live.

Lessons will repeat to you in various forms until you have learned them. When you have learned them, you can then go on to the next lesson.

Every event in our lives occurs to teach us something about ourselves.

There are no mistakes in life - only lessons. Lessons to be learnt and re-learnt until they are no longer lessons.

Remember, it's not what you do but that you do something that matters.

Ambivalence is like carbon monoxide - undetectable yet deadly.

Know your limits, not so that you can honor them, but so that you can smash them to pieces and reach for magnificence.

I think at this stage in my life I have learned that there are any number of things that men will never know, and can never hope to know, about women.

These women need to feel that we're all aware of what they may be going through, to give them the confidence to speak out.

In a perverse way, it's very patriarchal to think that women can't be malicious or violent.

That drew a mocking laugh from Lillian. “Really, someone should tell St. Vincent that he’s a living cliché. He has become the embodiment of everything they say about reformed rakes.

Depression cannot be overcome by listing a series of good things in one's life, any more than a broken foot can be healed by thinking about all the other bones you have that aren't broken.

Fame has only the span of the day, they say. But to live in the hearts of people-that is worth something.

Movies are magical. Sometimes it just works, it catalyzes, and everything falls into place, and no one knows exactly how or why.

So many of these comics are just frustrated singers or actors - they want to get a gig doing a sitcom. It's paint-by-the-numbers comedy, lame joke-telling. They're drawn to it as a career move.

Admitting weakness seems to be such a severe psychic threat for Bush that when he makes a mistake it's safer just to reinforce it. The strategy creates a perverse system of rewards and punishments