This genuine heart of sadness can teach us great compassion. It can humble us when we're arrogant and soften us when we are unkind.

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.

Music is the language of the heart. It can only sing songs of love.

The thought that I had been captured so soon, without having done anything for the revolution, made me feel ashamed. I thought: at least now, I must carry out my duty well under torture.

The need for some venture of faith still remains; one must stake one's life upon something.

Age and youth look upon life from the opposite ends of the telescope; it is exceedingly long,--it is exceedingly short.

It takes a man to make a devil.

Low-income people everywhere will be at risk of food insecurity due to loss of assets, absence of alternative livelihood options and lack of adequate insurance coverage from extreme weather events.

My younger sister retired a few years ago after a 30-year career teaching history and social studies at an inner-city high school.

I am not a person who is particularly patient with anyone so I am certainly not going to be patient with myself I think.

Ego is something that you come to know - something that you befriend by not acting out or by repressing all the feelings that you feel.

If you think something's happened quickly, you're looking at only a part of it.