Needing approval is like saying 'your view of me is more important than my own opinion of myself'.

Our intention creates our reality.

If you believe it will work out , you'll see opportunities. If you believe it won't you will see obstacles.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.

If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.

When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.

How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.

Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.

When you squeeze an orange, orange juice comes out, because that's what's inside. When you are squeezed, what comes out is what is inside.

If it excites you, if it makes you feel good, it's God speaking to you.

I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside.

The danger of motherhood. you relive your early self, through the eyes of your mother.

God lives and works in history. The outward mythology changes, the inward truth remains the same.

Good women are rarely clever and clever women are rarely good.

Literature is, in fact, the fruit of leisure.

You can spend your life watching other people win or beat your name into history.

We can conceive of nothing more fair than something which we have experienced.

Learn to see and to feel life; that is, cultivate imagination, because there are still marvels in the world, because life is a mystery and always will be. But be aware of it.

Life really changes. And it gets lighter, for the most part. You tolerate yourself and others better.

I'm afraid I'll lose myself in you, Gideon. I'm scared I'll lose the part of me I worked so hard to get back." "I'd never let that happen." he promised fiercely. Chapter 8, pg 140