The quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing

When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation.

When a person can’t find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.

Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.

The one thing you can't take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me.

Our greatest human freedom is that, despite whatever our physical situation is in life, WE ARE ALWAYS FREE TO CHOOSE OUR THOUGHTS!

There are two races of men in this world but only these two: the race of the decent man and the race of the indecent man.

Success, like happiness, is the unexpected side effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself.

It isn't the past which holds us back, it's the future; and how we undermine it, today.

One who knows what he or she knows as well as what he or she does not know is a genius.

Destiny is manifested only through action.

A child can die even in the safest place on earth- its mother's womb!

No one belongs when they are new to this world. All children are Changelings.

Acting responsibly is not a matter of strengthening our reason but of deepening our feelings for the welfare of others.

Ever since her obsession with Jonathan Cain, a deranged transfer student who had been at Sweet Valley for a month, Enid’s life had been entirely guyless.

Sati is life. Whenever we don't have sati, when we are heedless, it's as if we are dead.

Praise doesn't mean anything to me. I don't judge myself.

Life was an impenetrable mystery cloaked in babble.