We seem to need the motivation of pain or discomfort to drive us from our current manner of thinking and being to a higher level of reality.

To enjoy true, vibrant health, increased awareness, effort, and focus are required.

What we sometimes see as annoying, incessant questions from a child may be a plea for recognition. Maybe they do not need an answer as much as attention.

Journal writing is a wonderful pathway to self-awareness.

We usually need to have pain, trial or challenge to be motivated to learn or change. Learning in the midst of ease and prosperity comes from the pure inner soul’s inspired desire for improvement.

Health is the ability to be fully and consciously aware of all that contributes to your life experience and to effectively exist in that environment. It then means you see yourself as you really are.

As we mature and develop awareness to match our potential, our ability to enjoy full health is realized. As we enjoy this fruit, we sow the seeds of greatness in our children.

Health is not a physical accomplishment but the manifestation of our awareness of who we are and integrity in living out of that knowledge.

More of anything only makes us more of what we already are. If we are happy, it can bring more happiness. If we are depressed, it will make us more depressed.

Among the most sacred gifts you can give your child is the gift of health. This gift is best given by example." Dr. Rand Olson

Expect to change yourself in order to change your life experience.

If you're not going to use your free speech to criticize your own government, then what the hell is the point of having it?

Don't underestimate the power of being underestimated.

She gave me this look – she might have been watching from a lifeboat as the ship went down. Or maybe it was the other way around.

The job of the novelist is to invent: to embroider, to color, to embellish, to entertain, to make things up. The art of what I do lies not in research or even recollection but primarily in invention.

Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.

To be a recipient of a communication is to have an enlarged and changed experience. One shares in what another has thought and felt and in so far, meagerly or amply, has his own attitude modified.

Every age might perhaps produce one or two geniuses, if they were not sunk under the censure and obloquy of plodding, servile, imitating pedants.

Rain falls on everyone, lightning strikes some. What cannot be changed is best forgotten. God made the world, and He saw that it was good. Not fair. Not happy. Not perfect. Good.

For it is better to suffer a little want than to have too much.

You have to take the basics of feminism and the kind of outline of it and do what you do with it. You have to make things work for your own life.