What are you willing to give up, in order to become who you really need to be?

A true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life.

I've never seen any life transformation that didn't begin with the person in question finally getting tired of their own bullshit.

Tis' better to live your own life imperfectly than to imitate someone else's perfectly.

Stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be.

I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises.

This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.

There's always another level up. There's always another ascension. More grace, more light, more generosity, more compassion, more to shed, more to grow.

You were given life; it is your duty (and also your entitlement as a human being) to find something beautiful within life, no matter how slight.

Never forget that once upon a time, in an unguarded moment, you recognized yourself as a friend.

If you're going to answer the call and you're going to transform and you're going to change, get ready. It is not a day at the beach.

It is worth it to leave behing my minor life for grander maybes-Miles "Pudge

Every person in the AA program who's successful is living proof that he or she does have power over addictive drugs and alcohol- the power to stop.

This is an addictive pastime. You take no real risk, touch the world, and it responds. Repeat.

Golf: A plague invented by the Calvinistic Scots as a punishment for man's sins.

When every one of your arguments is characterized an attempt to bring back slavery or resegregate lunch counters, it's a little hard to have any sort of productive debate.

I love vodka martinis. I know it's a cliché.

You have to see human rights as an all-embracing concept. It could be something that would unite the world, if it could only be seen in that light.

Austere perseverance, hash and continuous... rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistible greater with time.

What is fundamentally beautiful is compassion: for yourself and for those around you.

Either we stay at home and become pillars of the community or we go out and tour. We couldn't really find any communities that still needed pillars.