Don’t hold together what must fall apart. The familiar life crumbles so the new life can begin.
Mean people are really just sad people. They hurt others because they are hurting. Every person is born beautiful, and much of the ugliness in others was put inside of them by other hurting people.
Death is the great hope of all life; the desire to expend itself; to be used and consumed by its own longing for itself.
Letting go of your painful past is how you open yourself to a wonderful future.
The greatest joys in life are found not only in what we do and feel, but also in our quiet hopes and labors for others.
The world is not fair, and often fools, cowards, liars and the selfish hide in high places.
We create in people through our actions and example. In this way people around us become reflections of our own behavioral patterns and internal energies.
Any act of violence creates resentment and resistance, because humans were meant to be free.
Change will never happen when people lack the ability and courage to see themselves for who they are.
When we want to talk, we can instead listen, and let our attentiveness to another’s need to speak be our silent statement.
The joy and smile of even one child is worth more than the prancing intellects of a thousand men.
Progress and healing involves seeing every person as not so different from ourselves.
Fanatic is often the name given to people of action by people who are lazy.
While it is important for people to see your promise you must also remember that hope is the keeper of both happiness and disappointment, the father of both progress and failure.
No time is better spent than that spent in the service of your fellow man.
One of the most important things one can do in life is to brutally question every single thing you are taught.
A polite enemy is just as difficult to discredit, as a rude friend is to protect.
The ability to forgive is one of man’s greatest achievements.
There is a deep interconnectedness of all life on earth, from the tiniest organisms, to the largest ecosystems, and absolutely between each person.
Curiosity is one of the great secrets of happiness.