If you don't waste your energy on variables you cannot influence, you can focus much more effectively on those you can. (Mark Epstein)

There was something important being overlooked, they argued, in the mainstreaming of meditation - a central plank in the Buddhist platform: compassion.

...didn't need to waste so much time envisioning some vague horribleness awaiting me in my future.

All we can do is everything we can do. (David Axelrod)

If everything in this world was in constant decay, why expend so much energy gnashing my teeth over work?

Turns out, it's pretty simple to win people over, especially in tense situations, if you're able to take their perspective and validate their feelings.

When you lurch from one thing to the next, constantly scheming, or reacting to incoming fire, the mind gets exhausted. You get sloppy and make bad decisions.

If a person cannot deal properly with what he has been given, God will never multiply what he has

Sometimes, breaking down is the bravest thing you can do.

I love you, I want to tell yu that, I want to say it for the billion times I couldn't say it. - Fletcher Green

Be thankful.Be grateful.

Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.

Passion and standing up for things can help create a sense of unity. But you still have to act a certain way.

God is with us, not beyond us, in suffering.

And somehow mother nature manages to create this incredible biosphere, to create this incredibly rich environment of animals and plants with this amazingly small amount of data.

Money gives me more energy than all the Granola bars in the world.

Believe in yourself and others will believe in you.