We can proceed according to the planned itinerary, strenuously trying to make life conform to our needs, or we can adapt to whatever we meet and flow without effort.

There is no choice between being kind to others, and being kind to ourselves. It is the same thing.

Eliminate something superfluous from your life. Break a habit. Do something that makes you feel insecure.

Giving kindness does as much good as receiving it...Kind people are healthier and live longer.

If kindness has falseness at its base, it is no longer kindness. It is labored courtesy.

Being kind is the simplest way to become who we really are.

If we could be sure of everyone and everything, trust would have no value

It's all really very simple. You don't have to choose between being kind to yourself and others. It's one and the same.

We are used to thinking in terms of what we can teach our children. Maybe we need to ask ourselves what we may learn from them.

Generosity is, by definition, disinterested.

The transition from rebellion to acceptance has an extremely important consequence. . . in which we start seeing life as a training school, to teach us what we need to learn.

When you have passion, you don't need coffee.

But people will do anything rather than admit that their lives have no meaning.

Shame is the raincoat over the soul repelling the living water of Jesus that would otherwise establish us as the beloved of God.

Persecution is the compliment paid by a threatened lie to a conquering truth.

Well, it's embarrassing to be a star.

Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precisely what he is seeking.

A journal is a repository for all those fragmentary ideas and odd scraps of information that might otherwise be lost and which some day might lead to more "harmonious compositions."

A man is what he does with his attention and mine is not for sale.

God will never reveal more truth about himself until you have obeyed what you know already

No one should feel pride in anything that is not his own.