Patience is not just about waiting for something... it's about how you wait, or your attitude while waiting.

You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind.

Every day is a gift from God. Learn to focus on the Giver and enjoy the gift!

Being negative only makes a difficult journey more difficult. You may be given a cactus, but you don't have to sit on it.

Encourage everyone you meet with a smile or compliment. Make them feel better when you leave their presence and they will always be glad to see you coming.

We suffer much agony because we try to get from people what only God can give us, which is a sense of worth and value. Look to God for what you need, not to people.

Love can melt the hardest heart, heal the wounds of the broken heart and quiet the fears of the anxious heart.

I make mistakes every day. I'm not perfect in my behavior, but I want to be and that's what God is after, a heart that wants to be.

Don't be afraid to step out, have dreams, have visions, have hopes and always, always, always believe in miracles.

A positive attitude gives you power over your circumstances instead of your circumstances having power over you.

When we are truly confident and secure, the opinions of others cannot control us.

You are the most influential person in your life. You can embrace your strengths or give away your power. The choice is yours.

I can't help thinking that caring possibly is the riskiest enterprise known to man. But how stop caring?

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.

To have a good enemy, choose a friend; he knows where to strike.

I'm just a person trapped inside a woman's body.

Proving one's freedom will often mean insisting on the most arbitrary, odd, unrepeatable aspects of one's behavior.

The best fish in the world are of course those one catches oneself.

If ruling our world stems from developing certainty in our sanity, how do we discover it? The Shambhala teachings instruct us to "put our mind of fearfulness in the cradle of loving-kindnes."

I have learned to get pleasure from speaking of pain

There is no struggle too vast, no odds too overwhelming, for even should we fail - should we fall - we will know that we have lived.