Across the board, it's infinitely more effective to praise actions that you want to encourage than to punish those you disapprove of.

Giving appreciations, praise, and gratitudes feels good and puts good vibes in the environment.

Whenever we criticize ourselves, we compound the issue.

Good planning is the foundation of success for almost any project. Start by getting clear on your goal.

Being alone in nature is another way to feel the joy of beauty - and oneness with a greater whole.

Along with bathing and eating your veggies, releasing emotions needs to become part of our daily routines.

We have a choice at every moment. We can engage in sadness, anger or fear or we can choose joy, love, and peace.

When you're gripped by anxiety, worry, insomnia, or panic, make yourself shiver, quiver, tremble, and shudder. It seems silly, but it really works.

Releasing the emotional energy and focusing on acceptance dissipates anger and restores balance.

The key to managing fear and life's tasks is to take the time daily to get organized.

Intuition comes from within. It's what you know when you're quiet and still.

When I was a child, I read books. My reading was not indiscriminate. I preferred books that were old and thick and hard. I made vocabulary lists.

She's called the secretary, but as far as I can tell she basically runs the school.

We are new every day.

When you're doing fantasy, you can get so caught up in the magic of it that you lose the humanity.

And then, when I went into the Navy, there was no choice. You took about half of the hours during your naval training as naval courses and the other half were engineering.

It doesn't matter what you think!

When someone isn't seen for a long time, Well, folk soon begin to imagine the worst.

By putting myself out there the way I've been doing people see me as a real person. Even though I do character voices and funny noises the stories are still real and I put them all out there.

I don't know what she is now. A stranger, mostly. It's as if she has become a part of a different world, one that doesn't include me anymore.

In my vision, the thing that man needs first and foremost is a meditative consciousness.