The miracle-minded perception would be to make happiness itself our goal and to relinquish the thought that we know what that would look like.

Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called "All the Things That Could Go Wrong.

‎"Nothing binds you except your thoughts; nothing limits you except your fear; and nothing controls you except your beliefs.

Ego says, "Once everything falls into place, I'll feel peace". Spirit says, "Find your peace, and then everything will fall into place".

People hear you on the level you speak to them from. Speak from your heart, and they will hear with theirs.

No one is any more or any less important than you are.

We can always choose to perceive things differently. You can focus on what's wrong in your life, or you can focus on what's right.

Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.

We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?

We are not here to fix, change or belittle another person. We are here to support, forgive and heal one another.

Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

That sense of happiness just out beyond my reach - I'm not sure I'd grasped that exactly, but I'd got something close to it, contentment maybe, or at least a functioning routine with regular rewards.

Your life must be planned in such a way that you could get to a stage when you can say every day of your life is being converted to a product.

But then, people usually do miss what's right in front of them.

I finally understand that it’s okay to be a little afraid of things but that obsessing over them does not mean you have any more control over what you fear.

The brave dies perhaps two thousand deaths if he's intelligent. He simply doesn't mention them.

That's silly, Anna," said the Honorable Olive. "Being afraid is silly, you know it is.

I can only control what I do. I can try to suggest and be open, but trust is the key.

The child begins to perceive the world not only through his [or her] eyes but also through his [or her] speech

At the heart of the fractured soul of America is the frightening chasm of race.

I can't see what God's plan is. I just know I've got to live with it.