I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.
One of the most sublime experiences we can ever have is to wake up feeling healthy after we have been sick.
Our souls are not hungry for fame, comfort, wealth, or power. Our souls are hungry for meaning, for the sense that we have figured out how to live so that our lives matter.
What cannot be achieved in one lifetime will happen when one lifetime is joined to another.
If you concentrate on finding whatever is good in every situation, you will discover that your life will suddenly be filled with gratitude, a feeling that nurtures the soul.
In all my years of counselling those near death, I’ve yet to hear anyone say they wish they had spent more time at the office.
God is like a mirror. The mirror never changes, but everybody who looks at it sees something different.
Do things for people not because of who they are or what they do in return, but because of who you are.
There is no right way to do a wrong thing.
The happiest people I know are people who don’t even think about being happy. They just think about being good neighbors, good people. And then happiness sort of sneaks in the back window while they are busy doing good.
We have confused God with Santa Claus. And we believe that prayer means making a list of everything you don’t have but want and trying to persuade God you deserve it. Now I’m sorry, that’s not God, that’s Santa Claus.
We are here to change the world with small acts of thoughtfulness done daily rather than with one great breakthrough.
When your life is filled with the desire to see the holiness in everyday life, something magical happens: Ordinary life becomes extraordinary, and the very process of life begins to nourish your soul.
You don’t become happy by pursuing happiness. You become happy by living a life that means something.
Forgiveness is a favor we do for ourselves, not a favor we do to the other party.
Given the unfairness that strikes so many people in life, I would rather believe in a God of limited power and unlimited love and justice, rather than the other way around.
Everything that God created is potentially holy, and our task as humans is to find that holiness in seemingly unholy situations. When we can do this, we will have learned to nurture our souls.
Our inability to see the beauty doesn’t suggest in the slightest that beauty is not there. Rather, it suggests that we are not looking carefully enough or with broad enough perspective to see the beauty.
When you carry out acts of kindness you get a wonderful feeling inside. It is as though something inside your body responds and says, yes, this is how I ought to feel.
Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people brings happiness.