Things do not change

Happiness, like unhappiness, is a proactive choice.

Humility means accepting reality with no attempt to outsmart it.

The sequence is suffering, insight, will, action, change.

Attending church does not necessarily mean living the principles taught in those meeting. You can be active in a church but inactive in its gospel.

When we fulfill our function, which is to truly love ourselves and share love with others, then true happiness sets in.

When people went on vacation, they shed their home skins, thought they could be a new person.

words are like nets - we hope they'll cover what we mean, but we know they can't possibly hold that much joy, or grief, or wonder.

When the trust account is high, communication is easy, instant, and effective.

Sustainable change, after all, depends not upon compliance with external mandates or blind adherence to regulation, but rather upon the pursuit of the greater good.

To change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions.

Becoming a mother cannot help but change things. An author's life is reflected in their writing, whether they want it to be or not, and parenthood is one of the biggest life changes there is.

There's no such thing as a handicap - it's all in your head

No one ever swung too slowly.

Name a moral statement or action, uttered or performed by a religious person that could not have been uttered or performed by an unbeliever.

Nothing can contribute more to peace of soul than the lack of any opinion whatever.

Verily, the best of husbands hath many raw edges, and many unnecessary pleats in his temper, and many wrinkles in his disposition, which must be removed.

It is the persistence of dance in helping people to resist, reduce, and escape stress since early humanity that attests to its efficacy.

I don't love who I am so I'm working on a fix

If you make yourself understood, you're always speaking well.

Is it not better to intimate our astonishment as we pass through this world if it be only for a moment ere we are swallowed up in the yeast of the abyss? I will lift up my hands and say Kosmos.