The will to grow is in essence the same phenomenon as love. Love is the will to extend oneself for spiritual growth. Genuinely loving people are, by definition, growing people.

Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.

Emotional sickness is avoiding reality at any cost. Emotional health is facing reality at any cost.

Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the making of action in spite of fear.

Mental health is an ongoing process of dedication to reality at all costs

The quickest way to change your attitude toward pain is to accept the fact that everything that happens to us has been designed for our spiritual growth.

Human beings are poor examiners, subject to superstition, bias, prejudice, and a PROFOUND tendency to see what they want to see rather than what is really there.

All my life I used to wonder what I would become when I grew up. Then, about seven years ago, I realized that I was never going to grow up--that growing is an ever ongoing process.

Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.

The key to community is the acceptance, in fact the celebration of our individual and cultural differences. It is also the key to world peace

We cannot even let the other person into our hearts or minds unless we empty ourselves. We can truly listen to him or truly hear her only out of emptiness.

Stars are like animals in the wild. We may see the young but never the actual birth, which is a veiled and secret event.

Suffering pulls us farther away from other human beings. It builds a wall made of cries and contempt to separate us.

Setting a good example is truly the most effective means of communication - and setting a poor one is disastrous!

It appears to me that almost any man may like the spider spin from his own inwards his own airy citadel.

Some people, they got housing loans, and I think they're responsible for taking a loan they didn't qualify for?

The warrior’s approach is to say ‘yes’ to life: ‘yes’ to it all.

Understanding the past requires pretending that you don't know the present. It requires feeling its own pressure on your pulses without any ex post facto illumination.

Focus on the opportunities, not on the constraints.

You may not realize it, but your life has the potential to bless everyone you encounter.

I would rather gamble on our vision than make a 'me, too' product.