“Forgiveness is the key to inner peace because it is the mental technique by which our thoughts are transformed from fear to love.”

The choice to be used as an instrument of love, right here, right now, is a choice for personal empowerment.

Behind every dark cloud there is an every-shining sun. Just wait. In time, the cloud will pass.

Spiritual growth involves giving up the stories of your past so the universe can write a new one.

The more room you give yourself to express your true thoughts and feelings, the more room there is for your wisdom to emerge.

The key to abundance is meeting limited circumstances with unlimited thoughts.

A relationship is more of an assignment than a choice. We can walk away from the assignment, but we cannot walk away from the lessons it presents. We stay with a relationship until a lesson is learned, or we simply learn it another way.

No matter what the problem, a miracle can solve it. Remember to ask for one.

May we not succumb to thoughts of violence and revenge today, but rather to thoughts of mercy and compassion. We are to love our enemies that they might be returned to their right minds.

Let’s forgive the past and who we were then. Let’s embrace the present and who we’re capable of becoming. Let’s surrender the future and watch miracles unfold.

Darkness is merely the absence of light, and fear is merely the absence of love. If we want to be rid of fear, we cannot fight it but must replace it with love.

The one good thing about failure is that it makes you consider doing things a different way.

In every heart there is an inner room, where we can hold our greatest treasures and our deepest pain.

To the ego mind, surrender means giving up. To the spiritual mind, surrender means giving in and receiving.

If our emotional stability is based on what other people do or do not do, then we have no stability. If our emotional stability is based on love that is changeless and unalterable, then we attain the stability of God.

It takes courage…to endure the sharp pains of self discovery rather than choose to take the dull pain of unconsciousness that would last the rest of our lives.

The meaningful question is never what we did yesterday, but what we have learned from it and are doing today.

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself.

Courage is knowing what not to fear.

There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.

Poverty with security is better than plenty in the midst of fear and uncertainty.

Shame is the most powerful, master emotion. It’s the fear that we’re not good enough.

Despotic governments can stand ‘moral force’ till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.

I know fear is an obstacle for some people, but it is an illusion to me. Failure always made me try harder next time.

I’m intimidated by the fear of being average.