I was perfectly happy in my boring life before you came along.

I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises.

This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.

Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.

Do not apologize for crying. Without this emotion, we are only robots.

Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation.

At some point, you gotta let go, and sit still, and allow contentment to come to you.

Zen masters say you cannot see your reflection in running water, only in still water.

That’s the thing about a human life-there’s no control group, no way to ever know how any of us would have turned out if any variables had been changed.

Dear Lord, please show me everything I need to understand about forgiveness and surrender

There is a reason they call God a presence - because God is right here, right now. In the present is the only place to find Him, and now is the only time.

Please always see the bright side of everything.

The beginning of a life of greatness starts from you becoming the biggest fan of your positive self.

No, " said Father. "Just do the best you can and don't let it worry you. In that way you'll have a clear conscience and a tranquil heart.

I was working at eBay, so I would just troll the vintage categories, find old amps and what have you. I was buying a fair amount of stuff and playing with it and then selling it back.

Jealousy is such an ugly emotion.

[Sheehan] deserves some consideration, and I think that should have been done right from the beginning.

Children are a house's enemy. They don't mean to be - they just can't help it. It's their enthusiasm, their energy, their naturally destructive tendencies.

I consider myself perfectly normal, and I don't know of any part of my life that would be so unusual as to interest the idly curious.

Perhaps the most important reason for self-disclosure is that without it we cannot truly love.

Men have the illusion of having a duty to make the world spin properly, which is precisely what makes it wobble.