It's never been true, not anywhere at anytime, that the value of a soul, of a human spirit, is dependent on a number on a scale.

Treat yourself as if you already are enough. Walk as if you are enough. Eat as if you are enough. See, look, listen as if you are enough. Because it's true.

Most of us spend our lives protecting ourselves from losses that have already happened.

Awareness is learning to keep yourself company

What you pay attention to grows. Pay attention to your loveliness, your magnificent self. Begin now.

Change happens when you understand what you want to change so deeply that there is no reason to do anything but act in your own best interest.

If you pay attention to when you are hungry, what your body wants, what you are eating, when you've had enough, you end the obsession because obsession and awareness cannot coexist.

We eat the way we eat because we are afraid to feel what we feel.

Awareness is learning to keep yourself company. And then learn to be more compassionate company, as if you were somebody you are fond of and wish to encourage.

If you think your job is to fix what is broken, you keep finding more broken places to mend.

The purpose of a spiritual path or religion is to provide a precise and believable way into what seems unbelievable.

The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.

Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.

. . . peace is a thing which a person must be willing to fight for . . .

I dislike boats," Ragnor observed, looking around. "I get vilely seasick." The turning green joke was too easy. Magnus was not going to stoop to make it.

Everything passes, only truth remains.

Well-mannered children could be conceived if the parents were well-mannered.

I am a tender, beautiful and loving guy that happens to slap a photographer now and then because they get in my way.

Chess is too difficult to be a game and not serious enough to be a science or an art.

The results you produce in life are inversely proportional to the degree to which you are intimidated.

Religion obviously played a role in this book and the previous book, too.