Things falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing.

Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.

Be kinder to yourself. And then let your kindness flood the world.

Being satisfied with what we already have is a magical golden key to being alive in a full, unrestricted, and inspired way.

So war and peace start in the human heart. Whether that heart is open or whether that heart closes has global implications.

It isn't what happens to us that causes us to suffer; it's what we say to ourselves about what happens.

All you need to know is that the future is wide open and you are about to create it by what you do.

To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest.

Feel the feelings and drop the story.

The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.

All situations teach you, and often it's the tough ones that teach you best.

Happy people tend to be those who take pleasure in simple things.

Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.

We gave him a hearty welcome, for there was nearly half as much of the entertaining as of the contemptible about the man.

The lazy man claims he is too heavy for light work and too light for heavy work.

When I have an idea, it goes from vague, cloudy notion to 100,000 words in a heartbeat.

Teach us to number our days aright.

The point in lifeis to find equilibrium in what is inherently unstable.

The Egyptian tomb was the outcome of the Mesopotamian influence and followed from the religious crisis the country had undergone.

In special education, there's too much emphasis placed on the deficit and not enough on the strength.

Come let us mock at the great That had such burdens on the mind And toiled so hard and late To leave some monument behind, Nor thought of the leveling wind.