You’ll seldom experience regret for anything that you’ve done. It is what you haven’t done that will torment you. The message, therefore, is clear. Do it! Develop an appreciation for the present moment. Seize every second of your life and savor it.
When you’re an orphan, you don’t wake up every day and tell yourself, “I’m an orphan again today. Why did this happen to me?” You just get on with your life. I’ve had other challenges that were much greater than that.
Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.
Only the insecure strive for security.
You can never get enough of what you don’t want.
The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.
People who want the most approval get the least and people who need approval the least get the most.
You can set yourself up to be sick, or you can choose to stay well.
It makes no sense to worry about things you have no control over because there’s nothing you can do about them, and why worry about things you do control? The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized.
Everything in the universe has a purpose. Indeed, the invisible intelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful fashion is also flowing through you.
One of the most effective means for transcending ordinary and moving into the realm of extraordinary is saying yes more frequently and eliminating no almost completely. I call it saying yes to life. Say yes to yourself, to your family, your children, your coworkers, and your business...
Know that no one is capable of making you upset without your consent.
Prosperity in the form of wealth works exactly the same as everything else. You will see it coming into your life when you are unattached to needing it.
Remind yourself that you cannot fail at being yourself.
Don’t “pole-vault over mouse truds” – by the time you’ve discussed the many options available to you, the problem itself could have been long behind you had you simply disposed of those rodent droppings with a simple tissue and dumped them into the garbage!
If you try to find your source, you are not going to find it in a tiny little particle that began with your parents commingling.
Society demands conformity at the expense of individual liberty. Let us be for once a non conformist to be fully alive.
Most people are searching for happiness. They’re looking for it. They’re trying to find it in someone or something outside of themselves. That’s a fundamental mistake. Happiness is something that you are, and it comes from the way you think.
Anonymously perform acts of kindness, expecting nothing in return, not even a thank-you. The universal all-creating Spirit responds to acts of kindness with the response: “How may I be kind to you?”
When I sit down to write a book, I do not know where the energy and the words come from. I just sit down, and soon it is flowing through my hand and onto the paper.