By far the strongest poison to the human spirit is the inability to forgive oneself or another person. Forgiveness is no longer an option but a necessity for healing.

The soul always knows what to do to heal itself. The challenge is to silence the mind

Just let go. Let go of how you thought your life should be, and embrace the life that is trying to work its way into your consciousness.

When you do not seek or need approval, you are at your most powerful.

Let me give up the need to know why things happen as they do. I will never know and constant wondering is constant suffering.

Grant me the grace to dissolve my negative thoughts about myself today. I breathe the grace of kindness into my heart. And may the grace of healing flow abundantly to every one in need of help.

Never blame another person for your personal choices - you are still the one who must live out the consequences of your choices.

You cannot change anything in your life with intention alone, which can become a watered-down, occasional hope that you'll get to tomorrow. Intention without action is useless.

There is no such thing as a simple act of compassion or an inconsequential act of service. Everything we do for another person has infinite consequences.

Being of service is not an option, it is a biological necessity. Every kind of action we do for someone is a reanimation of our own life force - and of the other person's.

Self-love means caring for ourselves enough to forgive people in our past so that the wounds can no longer damage us - for our wounds do not hurt the people who hurt us, they hurt only us.

Anyone in this world can have the power of life and death over someone else. It's horrible, but true. All you need to do is take it. And once you have -- there is no going back. (The Killer's Cousin)

My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.

If you can BE your way through it, you can find your way to it.

Money dignifies what is frivolous if unpaid for.

She existed in her friends; there she was. All the parts of herself she'd forgotten. She knew herself best when she was with them.

A few years ago, I thought, I'll never make it. I started to go to the doctor to help me lose weight.

[My work as a photographer is a] mission to document endangered species and landscapes in order to show a world worth saving.

Forgiveness is the true nature of the ascetic.

I'll tell you what divorce hasn't taught me. It didn't teach me not to get married again.

If you don't fall how are you going to know what getting up is like.