All we can do is everything we can do. (David Axelrod)

There was something important being overlooked, they argued, in the mainstreaming of meditation - a central plank in the Buddhist platform: compassion.

...didn't need to waste so much time envisioning some vague horribleness awaiting me in my future.

If you don't waste your energy on variables you cannot influence, you can focus much more effectively on those you can. (Mark Epstein)

If everything in this world was in constant decay, why expend so much energy gnashing my teeth over work?

Turns out, it's pretty simple to win people over, especially in tense situations, if you're able to take their perspective and validate their feelings.

When you lurch from one thing to the next, constantly scheming, or reacting to incoming fire, the mind gets exhausted. You get sloppy and make bad decisions.

Once she knows how to read there's only one thing you can teach her to believe in and that is herself.

Most Religions are Social Clubs with expensive Entertainment Cheap Wine and Stale Crackers

Self-confident people Inspire confidence in others

when your child is in trouble, the first thing you do is blame yourself.

... please Lady... Do not speak of it. I was young and foolish." "You most certainly were." "You are cruel, Evanna.

Art is a partnership not only between those who are living but between those who are dead and those who are yet to be born.

Being at odds with policies is nothing new to me.

That's the great thing about being in the third grade. If you've got one polysyllabic adjective, everyone thinks you're a genius.

Apparently you're not allowed to lick a toad's back.

I don't have to forgive you, Cath said. It's not like that with you. You're just in with me. Always. No matter what happens.