“Other people teach us who we are. Their attitudes to us are the mirror in which we learn to see ourselves, but the mirror is distorted. We are, perhaps, rather dimly aware of the immense power of our social enviornment.”

Do not let the rapidity with which these thoughts can change deceive you into feeling that you think them all at once.

One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt.

Society is our extended mind and body.

Genuine love comes from knowledge, not from a sense of duty or guilt.

Jesus was not the man he was as a result of making Jesus Christ his personal savior.

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

The present is always changing the past.

The menu is not the meal.

Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.

You’re under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.

If, then, my awareness of the past and future makes me less aware of the present, I must begin to wonder whether I am actually living in the real world.

In reality there are no separate events. Life moves along like water, it’s all connected to the source of the river is connected to the mouth and the ocean.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

If one were to live for endless ages, to live for the future would be to miss the point everlastingly.

Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.

The relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.

Just because someone isn’t willing or able to love us, it doesn’t mean that we are unlovable.

People say I make strange choices, but they’re not strange for me. My sickness is that I’m fascinated by human behavior, by what’s underneath the surface, by the worlds inside people.

Be willing to go all out, in pursuit of your dream. Ultimately it will pay off. You are more powerful than you think you are. Go for it.

I’m not really a girly girl.

I’m very confident in how I project my personality.

That’s my attitude on the military. I don’t like telling the enemy what I’m doing.

Don’t let Negative and Toxic people rent space in your head. Raise the rent and kick them out.

You are you. Now, isn’t that pleasant?