Change is the very basis of our life, not to be fought, to be welcomed and tasted, to be seen for the gift it truly is.

Fear of the future and longing for the past are major factors which impede appropriate action.

Unless we base our sense of identity upon the truth of who we are, it is impossible to attain true happiness.

Whatever we can't love or accept in another, is a mirror of something we can't love or accept in ourselves.

Relying on another is an expression of attachment, not love, a manifestation of insecurity and suffering, not understanding the true nature of our lives.

When we are willing to accept our experience, just as it is, a strange thing happens: it changes into something else. When we avoid pain, struggle not to feel it, pain turns into suffering.

The best defense against being hurt is to feel good about yourself and the way a person responds to you says more about them, than about you.

What seems good turns bad, what seems bad turns good. It is an endless cycle.

All the insight we will ever need to live well will come from fully being who and where we are.

In a relationship if you are giving and getting nothing back in return, stop giving so much, and spend time being. Give to yourself, be who you are.

The sense that my world is stable and stationary, that change will never come and that all will go on continuously as it is, is the nature of all delusion.

The entire time I'm burning in Hell, I'll regret each tear I made you weep. But if Hell were the price for twenty days with you, I'd condemn myself again and again. - Cian MacKeltar

I have to remember it is not love that has hurt me

The beauty of the Internet is that there's no space limit.

In 40 years I have not spent 15 minutes without thinking of Jesus.

Our loneliness makes us avid column readers these days.

Teaching is the rare profession where the customer isn't always right and needs to be told so appropriately.

That's one of those things that will really hurt me personally, if I label a character or think about what it might do if it were to do well. I just try to do a good job with it.

I dont know about Brad Pitt leaving that beautiful woman to go hold orphans for Angelina. I mean how long is that going to last?

And when you appear all the rivers sound in my body, bells shake the sky, and a hymn fills the world.

They're [haters] just building you up to knock you down. But for me, they haven't.