You are not merely the physical body that you identify with out of habit. Your essential state is a field of infinite possibilities.

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.

One always spoke of her like that in the third person as though she were not there. Sometimes she seemed invisible like peace.

Life is but a flash of time, a momentous flicker-- in the life that we know and space we live in on earth.© VW

Recognise excellence. Celebrate weirdness and innovation. Oddballs should be cherished, if they can do something other people can't do.

As a mother you are only as happy as your saddest child

My approach is always to try to be straight with people, especially about what my party can achieve.

Acting is a matter of giving away secrets.

[The captain] looked at Florentino Ariza, his invincible power, his intrepid love and was overwhelmed by the belated suspicion that it is life, more than death, that has no limits.

To have a major breakthrough in policy, you have to be able to stop and think.

The future of mankind lies waiting for those who will come to understand their lives and take up their responsibilities to all living things.

The perfect man of old looked after himself first before looking to help others.