The irony is that the person not taking risks feels the same amount of fear as the person who regularly takes risks.
Some people think that meditation takes time away from physical accomplishment. Taken to extremes, of course, that’s true. Most people, however, find that meditation creates more time than it takes.
Guilt is anger directed at ourselves – at what we did or did not do. Resentment is anger directed at others – at what they did or did not do.
The road to positivity is strewn with the abandoned vehicles of the faint-hearted.
It’s your life. Live it with people who are alive. It tends to be contagious.
The more severe the pain or illness, the more severe will be the necessary changes. These may involve breaking bad habits, or acquiring some new and better ones.
Do what you love and the necessary resources will follow.
Guilt is anger directed at ourselves.
Nothing adventured, nothing attained.
To overcome a fear, here’s all you have to do: realize the fear is there, and do the action you fear anyway.
Most people, once they graduate from the School of Hard Knocks, automatically enroll in the University of Adversity.
Acceptance is such an important commodity, some have called it “the first law of personal growth”.
Every time we give our word, it counts. For the most part, most people give it entirely too often. Our word is a precious commodity and should be treated as such...
If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger how much happier we would all be.
The amount of power freed by telling yourself you no longer choose to put energy into something can be remarkable. Be prepared for extra energy.
We are not responsible for every thought that goes wandering through our mind. We are, however, responsible for the ones we hold there. We’re especially responsible for the one’s we put there.
Laughter is essential to our equilibrium, to our well-being, to our aliveness. If we’re not well, laughter helps us get well. If we are well, laughter helps us stay that way.
You can always find some expert who will say something hopelessly hopeless about anything.
This is our true wealth: the riches we take with us, the joy we carry inside, the support we learn to give ourselves, and the self-loving that flows as a natural by-product of that support.
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.