You will stop turning to food when you start understanding in your body, not just your mind, that there is something better...Truth, not force, does the work of ending compulsive eating.

Treat yourself as if you already are enough. Walk as if you are enough. Eat as if you are enough. See, look, listen as if you are enough. Because it's true.

It's never been true, not anywhere at anytime, that the value of a soul, of a human spirit, is dependent on a number on a scale.

Most of us spend our lives protecting ourselves from losses that have already happened.

Awareness is learning to keep yourself company

What you pay attention to grows. Pay attention to your loveliness, your magnificent self. Begin now.

Change happens when you understand what you want to change so deeply that there is no reason to do anything but act in your own best interest.

If you pay attention to when you are hungry, what your body wants, what you are eating, when you've had enough, you end the obsession because obsession and awareness cannot coexist.

We eat the way we eat because we are afraid to feel what we feel.

Awareness is learning to keep yourself company. And then learn to be more compassionate company, as if you were somebody you are fond of and wish to encourage.

If you think your job is to fix what is broken, you keep finding more broken places to mend.

I'm not involved in politics, and I've never had any political role. I've never been in office. I've never taken any public administrative jobs.

We had a very good relationship. Very good. I liked [Sonny Ramphal]. I thought he was a genuine man.

Isn't allowing people a choice what America is all about?

Puny man can do nothing at all to help or please God Almighty, and Luck is not the hand of God.

People "confess" can be wildly different. I might go into the confessional and say, "Father, what is my obsession with miniatures?"

Conversion is not implanting eyes, for they exist already; but giving them a right direction, which they have not

You can as easily love without trusting as you can hug without embracing.

Sometimes it felt like her life was a series of falls from ever-greater heights.

Almost anything carried to a logical extreme becomes depressing.

Like ultraviolet rays memory shows to each man in the book of life a script that invisibly and prophetically glosses the text.