Every time we choose safety, we reinforce fear.

If you had a person in your life treating you the way you treat yourself, you would have gotten rid of them a long time ago.

Feeling bad is not a requirement; it’s something we agree to. Cut it loose!

You have been taught that there is something wrong with you and that you are imperfect, but there isn't and you're not.

Do something you fear, NOT to conquer the fear, NOT to accomplish a task, but to familiarize yourself with the processes with which fear protects itself, to demystify it.

Nonacceptance is always suffering, no matter what you are not accepting. Acceptance is always freedom, no matter what you are accepting.

Your definition of who you are is your prison. You can set yourself free at any time.

The voice inside your head is not the voice of god. It just sounds like it thinks it is.

Be just the way you have always been, with this difference: do not believe any of it, and pay close attention to all of it.

It doesn't matter what did or did not happen then. It only matters what happens NOW.

When you stop comparing what is right here and now with what you wish were, you can begin to enjoy what is.

However close you get to others, you can never get inside them, even when you're inside them.

They sat in silence on the windowsill, their hands locked across the distance between them.

Wisdom is finer than pearls.

The children in Holland take pleasure in making What the children in England take pleasure in breaking.

History is Philosophy teaching by example.

Pinetop could find the cracks and fill them in and be the glue and mortar of the whole band.

[Barton ] Gellman printed a great anecdote: he showed two Google engineers a slide that showed how the NSA was doing this, and the engineers "exploded in profanity."

If what you are doing is working, DON'T change just to be different. Just get better.

I want to help clean up the state that is so sorry today of journalism. And I have a communications degree.

Just believe, it will happen.