Real change happens bit by bit. It takes great effort to become effortless at anything. There are no quick fixes.

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.

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.

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 very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man

No matter what side of the law you are on, when it comes to revenge, there is no mercy.

But Colin's only understanding of love was of limitless loyalty, boundless tolerance.

Forgiveness is a choice, but it is not an option.

Drug programs began to turn their attention and money away from prevention and into maintenance. Methadone was cheaper than social workers, I suppose.

If you develop 10 things, and you can get two or three made, that's a very high ration.

The easy, gentle, and sloping path . . . is not the path of true virtue. It demands a rough and thorny road.

Give me two hours a day of activity, and I'll take the other twenty-two in dreams.

Complaining is another way of saying to others, YOU SOLVE THE PROBLEM.

I'm going to do my best to channel the character on a spiritual level.