We can do anything we want. The next time you hear yourself saying, to another-and especially yourself-I Can’t, take a deep breath and say instead, My resources are otherwise engaged.
Learn to ask for what you want. The worst people can do is not give you what you ask for which is precisely where you were before you asked.
I’m a confirmed negaholic. I don’t just see a glass that’s half full and call it half-empty; I see a glass that’s completely full and worry that someone’s going to tip it over.
By pursuing any one of our dreams, we can find fulfillment. We don’t need to pursue them all.
You have to follow the old rule for a while. In fact, once you master the old rule, you are then the master-and masters get to change things.
The only difference between ‘fear’ and ‘excitement’ is what we label it.
Running from fear only strengthens fear-you are demonstrating that fear has power over you. Fear must be faced and gone through.
Write 10 times: ‘Fear is my friend. Fear is the energy to do my best in a new situation.’ You don’t have to believe it; just write it.
Do we indulge our heart, or cater to our fear?
Your Master Teacher knows all you need to learn, the perfect timing for your learning it, and the ideal way of teaching it to you. You don’t create a Master Teacher – that’s already been done. You discover your Master Teacher.
There is no answer to any of these questions. It’s a matter of time and timing, of seas and seasons, of breathing in and breathing out. It’s a matter of balance.
The reason we feel hurt and anger when things and people outside us let us down is because we believe those things and people shouldn’t. Well, sorry, that’s not life here on earth.
The laws against public nudity make no sense. The idea that Jerry Falwell can go topless while Cindy Crawford cannot is an absolute affront to logic, common sense and the 5000 year human struggle for aesthetic taste.
For writing, getting off our buts means getting on our butts-putting it into a chair and not moving from the chair for a set period of time.
Because people are afraid of fear, they give up acre after acre of their own life.
For many, negative thinking is a habit which, over time, becomes an addiction...
Pettiness seems to go hand in hand with vindictiveness. The smaller the person, the larger the need for revenge. This may account for the fact that some consensual crimes have stiffer penalties than do most crimes with innocent victims.
Ultimately, censorship comes down to taste. What offends me may enlighten you. Do you want me deciding-based on my taste-what you should or should not be exposed to?
As with most consensual crimes, this prohibition of hemp is both silly and sinister.
Drugs, gambling, and prostitution are the Big Three underground ‘moneymakers’ in consensual crime. There would be, however, significant boosts to the economy if the stigma attached to the other consensual crimes were eliminated through legalization.