Nothing terrible has ever happened except in our thinking. Reality is always good, even in situations that seem like nightmares. The story we tell is the only nightmare that we have lived.

Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you. Everything happens at exactly the right moment, neither too soon nor too late. You don't have to like it... it's just easier if you do.

Spare yourself from seeking love, approval, or appreciation-from anyone. And watch what happens in reality, just for fun.

Our job is unconditional love. The job of everyone else in our life is to push our buttons.

Stress is an alarm clock that lets you know you're attached to something not true for you.

Peace doesn't require two people; it requires only one. It has to be you. The problem begins and ends there.

Fear has only two causes: the thought of losing what you have or the thought of not getting what you want.

Pay close attention to the particular thoughts you use to deprive yourself of happiness.

If you want real control, drop the illusion of control; let life have you. It does anyway. You’re just telling yourself the story of how it doesn’t.

It's not your job to like me - it's mine

It's not the problem that causes our suffering; it's our thinking about the problem.

She was smooth and beautiful under his rough, callused hands-an amorous balm to soothe the ugliness of war.

There is no reciprocity. Men love women women love children children love hamsters.

Pain lays not its touch upon a corpse.

I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves. This ethical basis I call the ideal of the pigsty.

Ridicule can do much, for instance embitter the existence of young talents; but one thing is not given to it, to put a stop permanently to the incursion of new and powerful ideas.

Small spaces allow me the intimacy, but make it more of a challenge for the more theatrical pieces.

Load up our guns Bring your friends It's fun to lose and to pretend

Love is a fabric which never fades, no matter how often it is washed in the water of adversity and grief.

Materially we must strive to secure a broader economic opportunity for all men, so that each shall have a better chance to show the stuff of which he is made.

It really does take a lot of time to make records, to be in the studio and do all that stuff.