When you feel small and weak, remind yourself that you are a child of the universe who is connected to the infinite source.

You alone are the judge of your worth and your goal is to discover infinite worth in yourself, no matter what anyone else thinks.

Everything that happens to us is a reflection of who we are.

No matter what the situation, remind yourself "I have a choice."

Be happy for no reason, like a child. If you are happy for a reason, you’re in trouble, because that reason can be taken from you.

The love you feel in life is a reflection of the love you feel in yourself.

Although we take it for granted, sanitation is a physical measure that has probably done more to increase human life span than any kind of drug or surgery.

Meditation is not a way of making your mind quiet. It is a way of entering into the quiet that is already there - buried under the 50,000 thoughts the average person thinks every day

Treat every moment as a gift, that is why it is called the present.

Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.

Take responsibility for your last bad decision, and then let it go. Don't blame others or make excuses for yourself.

It rewrites the contract, I'd read somewhere. Your self's no longer central. This thing comes out of you and drags half your soul along after it like a blanket.

Pain is never permanent.

Taylor Swift said haters are going to hate.

All film directors, even the ones using 3-D today, want you to look at what they chose.

Variety is the pledge that matter makes to living things.

I hate that impeccable, perfectly perfect look, all matched and prearranged. Style is to be simple.

Then I went to the morgue and saw that those bones weren't yours, heard your voice again in my head" -his eyes closed- "and once more, nothing else mattered.

Who has witnessed one free and unconstrained act of yours, has witnessed all.

What is actually happening is often less important than what appears to be happening.

Micro managing anything is not a great role for government.