Every day is a new opportunity to work with what you have inside toward enlightenment.

Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.

Be kinder to yourself. And then let your kindness flood the world.

Being satisfied with what we already have is a magical golden key to being alive in a full, unrestricted, and inspired way.

So war and peace start in the human heart. Whether that heart is open or whether that heart closes has global implications.

It isn't what happens to us that causes us to suffer; it's what we say to ourselves about what happens.

All you need to know is that the future is wide open and you are about to create it by what you do.

To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest.

Feel the feelings and drop the story.

The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.

All situations teach you, and often it's the tough ones that teach you best.

God did not just create you to be a nice person and eat hamburgers until you die

When you step up to being excellent, use hard work and determination as the powerful force they are. By using these ideas, over time they will reward you with sparkling success.

Whether in an advantageous position or a disadvantageous one, the opposite state should be always present to your mind.

So you've stopped thinking you're going to die?Oh, I'm more certain of it than ever. But I've stopped being scared.

I never in my wildest imagination dreamed that I would somehow become a sports commentator.

Guys with nice person names try to be sympathetic.

I can motivate myself fine just by wanting to be my best.

One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them.

If a philosopher is not a man, he is anything but a philosopher; he is above all a pedant, and a pedant is a caricature of a man.

Peace is worth more than all worldly possessions; in addition, God rewards it even in this life.