The voice inside your head is not the voice of god. It just sounds like it thinks it is.

Every time we choose safety, we reinforce fear.

If you had a person in your life treating you the way you treat yourself, you would have gotten rid of them a long time ago.

Feeling bad is not a requirement; it’s something we agree to. Cut it loose!

You have been taught that there is something wrong with you and that you are imperfect, but there isn't and you're not.

Do something you fear, NOT to conquer the fear, NOT to accomplish a task, but to familiarize yourself with the processes with which fear protects itself, to demystify it.

Nonacceptance is always suffering, no matter what you are not accepting. Acceptance is always freedom, no matter what you are accepting.

Your definition of who you are is your prison. You can set yourself free at any time.

Be just the way you have always been, with this difference: do not believe any of it, and pay close attention to all of it.

It doesn't matter what did or did not happen then. It only matters what happens NOW.

When you stop comparing what is right here and now with what you wish were, you can begin to enjoy what is.

Long-term goals provide focus, but inspiration comes from the accomplishment of short-term goals.

If I am I because I am I, and you are you because you are you, then I am I and you are you. But if I am I because you are you and you are you because I am I, then I am not I and you are not you!

Lord Chi Wen thought three times before taking any action. When the Master heard this, he said: Twice is plenty enough.

Had any parent ever succeeded in hiding marital unhappiness from their child?

What are we when we are alone? Some, when they are alone, cease to exist.

Nobody knows why they were born or where they come from.

Music teachers can either inspire or make you resent your instrument and parents in early years.

If the Nobel Prize was awarded by a woman, it would go to the inventor of the dimmer switch.

Sometimes hate is not enough to turn this all to ashes, together as one and against all others, break all of their wings to make sure it crashes.

Respect is a serious thing in him who feels it, and the height of honor for him who inspires the feeling.