Choosing to take responsibility for ourselves and for the consequences our choices create looks like hard work, but it really sets us free.

Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.

A codependent person is one who has let another person's behavior affect him or her and who is obsessed with controlling that person's behavior.

It's so easy to look around and notice what's wrong. It takes practice to see what's right.

Live your life from your heart. Share from your heart. And your story will touch and heal people's souls.

Remember to be kind. Remember to be loving. Remember to feel all your feelings and to take care of yourself. But most of all, remember to be happy.

The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written. We can help write that story by setting goals.

Today I will simply accept. I will relinquish the need to be in resistance to myself and my environment in any way. I will move forward in joy by accepting where I am right now.

If somebody rejects you or your choices, you are still real, and you are still worth every bit as much as you would be if you had not been rejected.

Relax, you're on a journey of discovery. Let life reveal itself to you.

The surest way to make ourselves crazy is to get involved in other people's business, and the quickest way to become sane and happy is to tend to our own affairs.

It’s never simple.” Avery slid an arm around Hope’s waist. “It shouldn’t be. Because being with someone should matter enough to be at least a little bit complicated.

There was one man who was interested in the color of music, the connection between light and music, and that was Einstein.

I've been more or less vegetarian for about 40 years. Health diet really helps. I do meditation every day, and either yoga or sport several times a week.

People of color, particularly African Americans, feel the stigma more keenly. In a race-conscious society, some don't want to be perceived as having yet another deficit.

I am proud of the fact that women have been recognised as being as capable, as able to do the senior jobs in Europe as any man.

A man's enjoyment of all good things is in exact proportion to the pains he has undergone to gain them.

Feelings come and go, unless you don't feel them. Then they stay, and hurt, and grow pear-shaped and weird.

I hear they burn for murder. Well, they say it just takes a second to die.

God be thanked for the thinkers of good and noble thoughts! It wakes up all the best in ourselves, to come into close contact with others greater and better in every way than we are.

I believe in magical things happening and spiritual goings on. Sometimes the most mundane things can surprise you and be magical.