Resisting what is happening is a major cause of suffering.

Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.

Be kinder to yourself. And then let your kindness flood the world.

Being satisfied with what we already have is a magical golden key to being alive in a full, unrestricted, and inspired way.

So war and peace start in the human heart. Whether that heart is open or whether that heart closes has global implications.

It isn't what happens to us that causes us to suffer; it's what we say to ourselves about what happens.

All you need to know is that the future is wide open and you are about to create it by what you do.

To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest.

Feel the feelings and drop the story.

The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.

All situations teach you, and often it's the tough ones that teach you best.

He saw that it was the gaps that were important, the spaces between the threads which made the pattern, and not the threads themselves.

Vulnerability is what heals us.

The umbrella won't stop the rain, but it will help you to get out during rainfall. As well as confidence is not going to guarantee your success, but it will give you the opportunity to achieve it.

Well, it's either kiss me or kill me, that's how I see it.

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

The prize I value most was given to me 60 years ago. I was named the girl with the cleanest fingernails.

I never saw myself as a comedian. I saw myself as a guy who can act funny.

I can't stand it to think my life is going so fast and I'm not really living it.

You have to begin to develop a repertory of jokes, multi-plane spiritual jokes, the sort of things the Zen masters tell each other when they're asleep. These are the secret teachings.

You can game the social media in the short run, but not for long.