When you stop comparing what is right here and now with what you wish were, you can begin to enjoy what is.

Every time we choose safety, we reinforce fear.

If you had a person in your life treating you the way you treat yourself, you would have gotten rid of them a long time ago.

Feeling bad is not a requirement; it’s something we agree to. Cut it loose!

You have been taught that there is something wrong with you and that you are imperfect, but there isn't and you're not.

Do something you fear, NOT to conquer the fear, NOT to accomplish a task, but to familiarize yourself with the processes with which fear protects itself, to demystify it.

Nonacceptance is always suffering, no matter what you are not accepting. Acceptance is always freedom, no matter what you are accepting.

Your definition of who you are is your prison. You can set yourself free at any time.

The voice inside your head is not the voice of god. It just sounds like it thinks it is.

Be just the way you have always been, with this difference: do not believe any of it, and pay close attention to all of it.

It doesn't matter what did or did not happen then. It only matters what happens NOW.

Friends might share clothes and chocolate, but they must share books. Just like you share the same stars, share the same books and you'll never be apart.

The world we create in our minds shapes the ultimate reality where we live

If youth was sold in a bottle of hair dye, we would all get in line.

Does it kill them? I don't want to be killing Americans whatsoever, Jeffrey.

You can call me the bad boy chef all you want. I'm not going to freak out about it. I'm not that bad. I'm certainly not a boy, and it's been a while since I've been a chef.

But I've never considered myself any kind of heartthrob. It sounds painful.

I think if more people would understand how simple and what really feminism is, I would imagine that most men I know are feminists without verbalising or saying so.

I continually stress to my players that all I expect from them at practice and in the games is their maximum effort.

Be as delicate as possible. If communication accomplishes something on the gross but damages something on the level of feeling then it is a spiritual loss! The feeling is more important for life.

At first glance a photograph can inform us. At second glance it can reach us.