This is the tendency of all living things: to avoid pain and to cling to pleasure.

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.

You may need to change your dreams.

You're cute when you're worried, your eyebrows get all scrunched together.

In my experience lust only ever leads to misery. All that suspicion and jealousy and anguish it unleashes. I don't want those things in my life.

In my early days, I was about 145 pounds. I was really a starving artist; the poster child for starving artists.

A book is a garden; A book is an orchard; A book is a storehouse; A book is a party. It is company by the way; it is a counselor; it is a multitude of counselors.

Dubstep has been big in the UK for years. I'm fine with hearing a dubstep drop in any song.

It hurts to find out that what you wanted doesn't match what you dreamed it would be.

Compelling reason will never convince blinding emotion.

It is better to feel repentance, than to be able to define it.

Fashion is fun, ridiculously fun. But it's base and it's wrong. You're not doing anything good for the world. You're just saying, 'Buy it, buy it, buy it.