An important aspect of self-compassion is to be able to empathically hold both parts of ourselves-the self that regrets a past action and the self that took the action in the first place.

Every criticism, judgment, diagnosis, and expression of anger is the tragic expression of an unmet need.

Your presence is the most precious gift you can give to another human being.

All violence is the result of people tricking themselves into believing that their pain derives from other people and that consequently those people deserve to be punished.

We are never angry because of what others say or do. It is our thinking that makes us angry.

Instead of playing the game "Making Life Wonderful", we often play the game called "Who's Right". Do you know that game? It's a game where everybody loses.

Empathy is a respectful understanding of what others are experiencing.

People have been trained to criticize, insult, and otherwise communicate in ways that create distance among people.

You don't have to be brilliant. It's enough to become progressively less stupid.

Most of us grew up speaking a language that encourages us to label, compare, demand, and pronounce judgments rather than to be aware of what we are feeling and needing.

The most dangerous of all behaviors may consist of doing things 'because we're supposed to.

I'm not a saint! Thanks God!

You can't fly if you don't get the courage to grow your wings.

We ought to get back to making America great again, which is what I am going to do.

Doubt everything at least once, even the sentence "Two times two is four."

The religion of Islam actually restores one's human feelings, human rights, human incentives, human, his talent.

Everybody likes to see somebody else get caught for the vices practiced by themselves.

At some stages of your life you will deal with things and at others you are overwhelmed with misery and anxiety.

I've seen public opinion shift like the wind and put out the very fire it lighted.

I ask you to make INSTITUTE a PRIORITY.