When we direct a lot of hostile energy toward the inner critic, we enter into a losing battle.

Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope - a slight change, and all patterns alter.

The difference between misery and happiness depends on what we do with our attention.

We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.

Mindfulness isn't difficult, we just need to remember to do it.

We spend our lives searching for something we think we don't have, something that will make us happy. But the key to our deepest happiness lies in changing our vision of where to seek it.

If you go deeper and deeper into your own heart, you'll be living in a world with less fear, isolation and loneliness.

What comes up is not nearly as important as how you relate to what comes up.

You are capable of so much more than we usually dare to imagine

All beings want to be happy, yet so very few know how. It is out of ignorance that any of us cause suffering, for ourselves or for others

Mindfulness allows us to watch our thoughts, see how one thought leads to the next, decide if we're heading down an unhealthy path, and, if so, let go and change directions.

Wanting something is one thing, but believing you could attain it is another. But in the game of success, nothing tangible ever happens without one believing in its possibility.

There is no 'the truth,' 'a truth'--truth is not one thing, or even a system. It is an increasing complexity.

When the world says, "Give up," Hope whispers, "Try it one more time".You have more potential than you believe you do.Don't cry because its over, smile because it happened.

I've been fascinated by music for as long as I can remember. I was the kid on the playground in the third grade who would tell other kids about Paul Simon or Depeche Mode.

I know it's hard to not do well at something, and I know it's hard to need help.

People tell me that I'm always smilin' on the court. I don't think about it. I just get emotional out there.

If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger how much happier we would all be.

Like a fragrance to a flower, true happiness is an expression of your unconditional self...the real you.

Comics can do any kind of story. It's words and pictures, the only things it can't do are sing and dance.

O what fine thought we had because we thought that the worst rogues and rascals had died out.