“Negative emotions are like unwelcome guests. Just because they show up on our doorstep doesn’t mean they have a right to stay.”

We are who we are, and when you accept people instead of trying to change them to fit your needs, your relationships can fully blossom.

When you blame and criticize others, you are avoiding some truth about yourself.

In every failure lies the seeds of success.

Relinquish your attachment to the known, step into the unknown, and you will step into the field of all possibilities.

You are not creating a new you; you are releasing a hidden you. The process is one of self discovery. The hidden you that wants to emerge is in perfect balance.

The most satisfying project you will ever undertake-and a mark of a complete human being-is to discover how to build a sense of happiness that no one can take away from you.

Feel the world, instead of trying to understand the world.

Know that people are doing the best they can from their level of awareness. Accept people for who they are and always be ready to forgive.

People are doing the best that they can from their own level of consciousness.

First, say to yourself, ‘I’m totally independent of the good or bad opinions of others.’ Second: ‘I’m beneath no one.’ Third: ‘I’m fearless in the face of any and all challenges.’

The Higher Self is whispering to you softly in the silence between your thoughts.

There are no extra pieces in the universe. Everyone is here because he or she has a place to fill, and every piece must fit itself into the big jigsaw puzzle.

In my stillness I am the eternal possibility. In my movement I am the cosmos.

The ultimate goal of all goals is to be happy. If you want to be happy make someone else happy.

The three things you can offer your children to change them: attention, appreciation and affection.

Start by thinking of the smallest possible action you could take; then, take it. Then, choose the next smallest action, and do that.

No one can be so welcome a guest that he will not become an annoyance when he has stayed three continuous days in a friend’s house.

The number of guests at dinner should not be less than the number of the Graces nor exceed that of the Muses, i.e., it should begin with three and stop at nine.

God, provide me with enough sustenance that my family is taken care of, that neither I remain hungry, nor does my guest go unfed.

The Night is young & full of rest I can’t describe the way she’s dress’d She’ll pander to some strange requests Anything that you suggest Anything to please her guest.

When you feel most alive, find out why, This is one guest you won’t greet twice.

When the Guest is being searched for, it is the intensity of the longing for the Guest that does all the work. Look at me, and you will see a slave of that intensity.

In order to prove a friend to one’s guests, frugality must reign in one’s meals; and, according to an ancient saying, one must eat to live, not live to eat.

People are far more sincere and good-humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.