The essence of forgiveness is seeing our humanness and seeing that we all have our limitations and follies.

Nature teaches us simplicity and contentment, because in its presence we realize we need very little to be happy.

It's important that we see clearly with wisdom and awareness, but also take action.

We're not as different as we think we are.

We live with that sense of not being enough, and it causes a very painful state.

I started meditating and as soon as I turned that lens of attention inwards, it was like, okay, game over. This is what I'd been looking for to resolve some of these inner conflicts and pains.

We need to forgive - but mindfully. We need compassion that powered by wisdom. That's the way to address our bullies.

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Success does not bring happiness. Success brings success.

And by the way, if I always tell you the truth, you might start to believe me.

The only and one way to say what abstract art or art-as-art is, is to say what it is not.

The blessing of my mother is that she is so interested, she is so bright, she never complains - the joy of the Lord just bubbles out of her. Anybody who's in her presence is blessed to be there.

Trying to get people to face reality and see the world the way it really is is an absolutely critical aspect of leadership, in my view.

I don't why I was bullied. I was quite shy and skinny. Very nerdy, very bookwormish. I think I was just a target.

I like there to be a joke in practically every photo I take. Nobody has the right to make photography boring.

If life is misery, why do we endure it?

Court the society of a superior, and make much of the opportunity; for in the company of an equal thy good fortune must decline.