Do what you love and the necessary resources will follow.
That’s what depression had wrought inside me: one, vast, barren rock garden-without the garden.
The ongoing successful treatment of my depression is the single most important positive step I have taken in my life, hence my enthusiasm for the subject.
In order to truly master the comfort zone, you have to learn to love it.
In life, we have either reasons or results.
If we learned everything there is to know in kindergarten, it was promptly drummed out of us in first grade.
While goals are chosen, a purpose is discovered. Our purpose is something we have been doing all along, and will continue to do, regardless of circumstances, until the day we die.
You’re asking the government to control individual morality. This is a government that can’t buy a toilet seat for under $600.
All the good, fine, noble, and creative acts of humanity were conceived as a spark in a single human consciousness.
First, all relationships are with yourself-and sometimes they involve other people. Second, the most important relationship in your life-the one you have, like it or not, until the day you die-is with yourself.
Meditation creates more time than it takes.
Heroes became heroes flaws and all. You don’t have to be perfect to fulfill your dream.
To change rules that are already in place takes time, energy, perseverance and a lot of hard work. You only have so many of these assets at your disposal, so choose with care the rules you want to change.
And neither shall we learn to war with ourselves anymore.
Emotion is energy in motion.
Find your horse. Discover the direction the horse is going. Ride the horse in that direction.
Fear is something to be moved through, not something to be turned from.
I see nothing wrong with the human trait to desire. In fact, I consider it integral to our success mechanism. Becoming attached to what we desire is what causes the trouble. If you must have it in order to be happy, then you are denying the happiness of the here and now.
I’d have a nervous breakdown except that I’ve been through this too many times to be nervous.
In reality, serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive in life, work and love. The other 99 percent is due to our efforts.
Self-confidence is being able to say to another, “I am what I am, and as long as I am not physically harming you or your property, your not liking what I am is your problem.