When we have for so long been judged by everyone we meet, just to look into the eyes of another who does not judge us can be extraordinarily healing.

The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?

If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.

The things that matter most in our lives are not fantastic or grand. They are the moments when we touch one another.

Most of us have spent our lives caught up in plans, expectations, ambitions for the future; in regrets, guilt or shame about the past. To come into the present is to stop the war.

We do not have to improve ourselves; we just have to let go of what blocks our heart.

Do not doubt your own basic goodness. In spite of all confusion and fear, you are born with a heart that knows what is just, loving, and beautiful.

In the end, just three things matter: How well we have lived How well we have loved How well we have learned to let go

Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.

Let go of the battle. Breathe quietly and let it be. Let your body relax and your heart soften. Open to whatever you experience without fighting.

The basic principle of spiritual life is that our problems become the very place to discover wisdom and love.

The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.

She tried to smile sympathetically, but with her face it wasn't quite possible.

You are perfectly right in making some slight alteration. Indeed, no woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.

You might as well try and dam Niagara Falls with toothpicks as to stop the reform wave sweeping our land.

Every decoding is another encoding.

Love is like water. If it doesn't flow, it stagnates.

I don't feel bad about losing.

Maturity is when you live your life by your commitments, not by your feelings.

I"ve learned that I must find positive outlets for anger or it will destroy me.

Life is a highway. I want to ride it all night long